An expensive watch is a stylish accessory that emphasizes a certain status of a person. They can be worn on the left or right hand, hidden from prying eyes or unobtrusively shown to interlocutors. This is especially true of watches produced by well-known brands. However, simple walkways can be useful and beautiful if you skillfully fit them into the interior of a bedroom or living room. Many consider them the perfect gift for a birthday, New Year or anniversary, but in reality, not everyone is happy with a modest or luxurious ticking box tied with a bow. The fact is that there are signs explaining why it is impossible to give a watch to a newlyweds, a girl or a boyfriend, a loved one and a colleague.
According to popular rumor, giving someone a watch is a bad omen. There are several similar interpretations of it, but they all agree on one thing - the watch attracts negative energy to itself, taking away from a person his happy years of life. That is why you cannot give a watch to a girl, boyfriend or newlyweds, as well as to close people for their birthday, March 8, New Year. True, there are special rituals that can remove the negative, but not everyone knows them.
Where do the legs "grow" from?
The ban explaining why it is impossible to give watches, both wrist watches and wall clocks, came to Russia from China. Since ancient times, the Chinese have been wary of mechanisms capable of measuring time that is invisible to the eye and not felt with their own eyes. And the Chinese character for the word "death" is very similar to the character for "clock". That is why sages from the East gave instructions - never to make or buy watches for loved ones. This meant that the giver unconsciously wants the person to leave life as quickly as possible.
Other peoples also had "dangerous" omens. It was believed that clockwork has witchcraft, magic, is able to stop time or slow it down, turn it back. Another superstition that explains why it is impossible to give a watch to a loved one is associated with an early separation from him, and not just separation, but a break in relations.
Why you can't give a watch for a birthday or wedding
The most important sign of why it is impossible to give a watch to a boyfriend, girlfriend or newlyweds for a wedding, as well as to a husband or wife, is associated with separation. In many countries, it is believed that if you give such a present to a loved one, parting is inevitable. It doesn't matter if the spouses or the groom and the bride believe in these signs, in the foreseeable future they will not only have to part for a while, but really divorce, forget about each other and about their feelings after quarrels and scandals.
Another sign is associated with long-term friendship and good relationships between loved ones. Superstition says that as soon as the donated wrist or wall clock stops, the long-term friendship between the donor and the hero of the day, the birthday man, will end. Another, more terrible and ominous omen, concerns the death of the donee. She promises the owner of the donated watch a quick death immediately after the "clocks" that have not been started on time stop. After such information, many feel uncomfortable, hence the obvious reluctance of many to accept a gift from loved ones a box with a bellied alarm clock or a wrist accessory inside for the New Year, anniversary, or ordinary birthday.
For those who do not believe in omens and superstitions, the presented watch can simply hint about adulthood, the passing of time, especially for women. Therefore, such a present usually always causes rejection and rejection, albeit unconsciously. Yes, and older people, especially parents, when looking at the wall clock will be sad, realizing how quickly years, days and hours fly by, depriving them of such important communication with children and grandchildren. It is better, if you have doubts about the appropriateness of such a souvenir or accessory, to choose another gift.
How to get around a bad omen
If information about the signs associated with watches is received on time, even before buying them, no problem will arise for anyone. All that remains is to pick up another souvenir for a friend for his birthday or New Year's, and give the newlyweds the bills in an envelope altogether. But what if the walkers have already been bought, packed and brought in a bag for the anniversary? Is it possible to give them if the mother-in-law is angrily muttering behind her back about a stupid choice and evil omens, and the hero of the day twitches his shoulder in dismay?
There is, of course, a way out. In order for the donated clock, whether it be a wall thing or a wrist accessory, to bring only happiness to the owner, you need to take a symbolic payment of 10 rubles for it, preferably in a coin. Then they will not be considered donated, but purchased, and will not bring any troubles.
