I am left-handed and I also prefer to wear a watch on my left wrist. That makes me somewhat unusual because the traditional "rule" when it comes to your wrist watch is that it goes on your non-dominant hand's wrist. So if I were like more people and followed the "rule," I would wear my watch on my right wrist because I am left-handed.
I realized that I wasn't aware of any such "lefty watch" history, and assumed that for the most part, timepieces were "wrist interchangeable" enough that you could feasibly wear the same watch on either wrist.
Lefty watches are really just righty watches with the crown on the other side. This developed as a natural reaction to the fact that people needed to wind their watches (while they wore them) on a regular basis.
Thus, if there was a historic need for left side-crowned watches so that people who primarily used their left hands and wanted to wear a timepiece on their right wrist had something to wear.

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