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I'm a huge fan of jewelry and am currently working on collecting more masculine pieces.  I love leather/silver pieces, mechanical watches, and more modern styles like these:

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Do you guys like wearing jewelry?  If so what kind?

I am with you ... I like the same stuff...I haven't started collecting anything but I am sure my wife will start getting me some.  She has already started redoing my clothing -- now if she could only start using the male pronouns and such I would be a much happier man

Hey Lee, I really like that ring! Is it silver? It looks like turned coconut wood.

I'm a sucker for chunky rings, and for opals - so I was blissed out to find this in a shop in Glastonbury last year.

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They call them black opals, this photo doesn't do justice the the blue-green dragoneye-ness of this stone :).

Watches are the most commonly accepted male jewelry, but they just leave your wrists unbalanced.
The solution? Bracelets. (http://i.imgur.com/ljlsi.jpg)

Just needs a nice chunky bracelet on the other wrist - "Thus is equilibrium maintained..." :)

I think that particular one is damascus steel.  It's called mokume gane, where several metals are fused together.  It comes in all sorts of awesome patterns.
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Lush!
(That means "gorgeous/tasty!" over here, not "you're a drunk!", by the way...)

its all about the watches for me :D

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I like small/subtle jewelry, which (especially with my tiny hands) is super feminine, so I just don't wear any. I don't even wear a watch anymore, because in order to not look completely ridiculous I'd need men's watches to be scaled down to about 75% of their normal size.

If it didn't look stupid on me, though, I'd want this watch:
http://www.citizenwatch.com/COA/English/detail.asp?Country=COA&Language=English&ModelNumber=BM0194-53L (http://www.citizenwatch.com/COA/English/detail.asp?Country=COA&Language=English&ModelNumber=BM0194-53L)

->-bleeped-<- my dad told me... and he actually said this on far, far more than just one occasion... Nothing says 'I don't work' like an expensive watch.  And I've found that to be true at least in this regard: pretty much no matter what it is your doing, your wrist is going to be heavily involved, so that it becomes the absolute worst place to wear something a) expensive, and b) that can get caught on stuff. 

It's that whole getting caught on stuff that doesn't appeal to me.  I love to look at jewelry but I'd never wear any.  It's kinda counter-indicated for an active lifestyle.  And it leaves tan lines.  Icckky.

Well, the kind of work I did when I worked with my hands was dangerous enough that I couldn't wear a watch if I wanted to. Especially not a dressy watch with pins and links and little metal parts that could theoretically fall out; I was an aircraft mechanic on the flight line in the Navy, and jewelry mishaps could endanger not only me but our jets and our pilots (even small bits of metal can destroy aircraft if they end up in the wrong place).

Didn't stop me, or anyone else, from wearing what we wanted outside of work. I'm not the sort of person who always dresses like I just got off work and wandered straight to the bar in my greasy coveralls. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it wouldn't get me laid (as a woman or a gay guy...even gay military/workingman fantasies don't involve actual hydraulic fluid and jet fuel)

I have an absolutely amazing ring that in the shape of a chineese lion, with two small rubies set for the eyes, but it's a) quite large and heavy and b) doesn't fit properly as my fingers have shrunk.

I'm not getting rid of it though.

Helena, I'm sure you could get it sized.

I worked as a jeweler, so showing off your pieces at work was kind of expected.  The only thing out of the question was rings, as it is difficult to handle files/sand paper/etc without damaging them.

I love bracelets. Any bracelets really. Maybe it's effeminate, but I actively try to wear as many bracelets as possible. I want to get some leather ones, because those are my favorite.

I don't think that's effeminate at all.  I know a lot of guys who wear grouped bracelets.

Really? I've only ever seen girls do it. And when I wear a lot of bracelts, people always make comments about it...

Here it's mostly guys who do.  It's usually with more natural (hemp or leather) styles or large groups of the rubber bracelets, which I usually see on people with more of a punk style.

Favorite? (several years ago) The fake Rolex watch I traded for Ozzy tickets (ounce of really good happy smoke) to a guy that had ripped me off for a few hundred $$$ a few months before  ::)

I'm a fan of anything even remotely steampunk in design as far as accessories and stuff goes. Goggles, Pocketwatches, Rings of metal, Belt-buckles made of watch-movements, and anything dripping in gears. Hell yes. Most of my jewelry and stuff is handmade and held together with E-6000.

I love my pocket watch, though I rarely wear it due to fear of it breaking or being stolen. I also love my Egyptian necklace, with my name written in hieroglyphs (it's my old girl name, but I still love it for the good memories I have from Egypt). I don't wear jewellery a lot, it's impractical and I'm always afraid of breaking it or losing it. I'm thinking about finding myself a necklace or something with a green lizard on it, to remember my old name and its meaning. I may not be named "green" anymore, but I still love the colour.

I usually wear stuff from Vivienne Westwood or Juicy Couture and a bunch of black leather/pyramid studded stuff. Lots of designer necklaces with crowns.

I actually do like jewelry and have a fair amount of it (a portion of which could very well be considered "girlie"). I love silver stuff. I have some chunkier bracelets that I wear now and then. I love turquoise and silver (like Indian style stuff). I think rings are my fav though. I should post some pics sometime :)

I love rings.
I just got a new one for my birthday from Julie and Ben, kind of looks like a big silver claw, with an onyx set into it. I'm in love with the thing. I've also got a spoon ring that's been half-assedly passed down my mom's side of the family, two Aztec-looking silver pinkie rings, and this weird little silver belt-looking ring my aunt bought me. She apologized for it being a 'girly ring', but I still wear it. Partially 'cause I love her, and because I just think it's really goddamn cute.

Other than that, I don't wear too much jewelery anymore. I've got two studded wristbands, one black and one white, that I wear when I go out, and the 6 hoops in my ears. That's about it...I would like to get some nifty necklaces eventually though.

I have a skeleton watch - it's mechanical, all windy up and you can see the gears working is quite fascinating and beautiful. It is a cheap one though and the designer of the clockface doesn't know their roman numerals.

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Whoops, that's an apple and blackberry crumble - hehe, I'm keeping that on as record to dumbness.

I mean this

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I think it's funny they got 9 right but not 4.

You'd have thought someone would check... when I am better off, I'll get a better quality one, but this one does nice for now.

I wear one ring. It is a reminder of a friend I lost due to transition. We were friends for about 20 years. It is pretty plain with a southwest indian or Incan pattern engraved on it.

Quote from: Pica Pica on July 26, 2011, 04:32:16 AM
I have a skeleton watch - it's mechanical, all windy up and you can see the gears working is quite fascinating and beautiful. It is a cheap one though and the designer of the clockface doesn't know their roman numerals.

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Whoops, that's an apple and blackberry crumble - hehe, I'm keeping that on as record to dumbness.

I mean this

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Lol, how the hell did the crumble end up on there? The randomness of that just made my day.

Sucks about the Roman numerals, but those watches are beautiful regardless. My boyfriend's wanted one for a long time but they're too damn expensive.

Actually, I think it's fun that the numerals are screwed up.  I'm tempted to get one now.

Just over a tenner.