[twin fed]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Unless they are rappers or basketball players.

I'm a rapping basketball player and I would not wear anything like that.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Jarviiiis

Besides a watch and wedding ring, men shouldn't wear jewelry.

I concur. (Nothing against the ring though.)

[AIRPOWER]

I would sport that bad boy on my left pinky finger!!!

[Needbmwpartzz]

I would melt it down and make stereo connectors.

[zeevette]

I would hang it from a thick chain around my neck. Solid gold, of course, and full douche ensemble.

[ShopVac]

Working with EHV power systems up to 500kV.

I don't even 'rock' my wedding band.

[dreamingat30fps]

The thought of rings in general give me the heebeegeebeez!!! I don't like my fingers being strangled.

[tony20009]

I don't think the pictured ring is ugly, but it's specific styling elements aren't ones I'd choose for myself if I have any say in the matter. Also, I wouldn't have one made for myself with as much side decoration as the one pictured in the OP, but if it were my family's seal and the side decoration were part and parcel of that family tradition and it came to me from an ancestor, I would certainly wear it, and proudly.

The seal on top is what it is; one can't do much about one's family crest. One is either proud of one's heritage and willing to display it or one isn't. Look at the myriad Scottish tartans (https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/az...archString=M); they are substantively no different than a signet/seal ring, albeit a lot more noticeable. Some of them I think are hideous color combinations or simply have dominant colors I don't like, but that said, if those were my family's colors, I'd wear them. It's just that I'd wear them less often than I would if I were to actually like the colors.

As a ring that indicates membership in a organization, mostly no, I wouldn't wear it. I'd wear it at club/organization events, or at other events where my presence there results from my role in the ring-related organization, with no reservation. If I were the "grand poobah" (or one of the several such exalted club members) of the organization, and that was what I was generally known to be in my personal and professional life, sure, I'd wear it all the time. Examples of what I mean: the Pope, cardinals, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Commandant of the Swiss Guard, etc.

All of the about notwithstanding, re: the "as a man" portion of your inquiry, my manliness has nothing to do with whether I'd wear the ring. There's nothing at all feminine about the ring's design, but even if there were, my masculinity has nothing to do with a ring that'd be on my finger. Do you think Morgan Freeman, Colin Ferrell, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Daniel Day Lewis or David Beckham's, among many others, manliness somehow is affected by their wearing earrings? I certainly don't. And a ring is considerably less eye-catching than is an earring.





I just think one either likes rings, or specific rings, or one doesn't, and one will in turn wear it/them or not accordingly. If one's manliness is at issue, it's going to be at issue ring or no ring.

All the best.

[tony20009]

Originally Posted by AIRPOWER

I would sport that bad boy on my left pinky finger!!!

I see you are in the Netherlands. Are you Dutch royalty? Just asking because it's generally royals who wear them on their pinkie.

Originally Posted by Jarviiiis

Besides a watch and wedding ring, men shouldn't wear jewelry.

that is definitely a cultural thing not a gender-based thing. One need only go to India, or attend an extravagant, traditional Indian wedding to see as much. Many of the Indian men on my project teams routinely wear a modest ring of some sort, often something similar to a subtle signet ring, but occasionally a ruby or other gemstone that is set quite like Western women's jewelry such as the one below.




I was raised on the "men wear only cuff links, wedding rings and watches" dictum. I bought into it until I came across some man jewelry and thought it looked cool. After buying it, wearing it and being complimented on my look while wearing it, I got over the idea that I shouldn't wear jewelry. Mind you, I haven't and won't take jewelry wearing to the extents Liberace, George V, or non-Western aristocrats from history did, but wear more than links and a watch I do. (I'm divorced.)

Historically, certain men used to wear as much jewelry as did women. Wearing it was about one's being able to afford it and, given some cultures' sumptuary laws, about being allowed to do so. It was also about banking's not having been conceived. Thus jewelry made wealth portable, far more portable than bullion, flatware and candlesticks. LOL Jewelry was also a better way to protect one's wealth than was leaving it at home as one might have to do with stuff like candlesticks and other small decorative accessories.

The decline of man jewelry roughly coincides with the rise of America. As the nation evolved out of the era of landed gentry and into one where men made their fortunes by working, often by working the land (even if doing so happened via "gentleman farming"), man jewelry just was impractical to wear. Changes in jewelry wearing and garment styles for men roughly occurred concurrently.

Even as more and more men shifted from "gentlemanly" and ancestral ways of earning and passing on wealth and to more "hands on" ways of doing so, human nature didn't change one bit. Social classes very much remained in place; all that changed was how one outwardly demonstrated to others what one's social class was. When male gentry began to pretty much all dress alike, the jewels they could drape on their ladies became the de rigueur means of doing so.

Of course, pedigree still mattered, and to an extent its importance increased because the growth of America resulted in a booming merchant class of folks who had more than ample wealth to buy whatever they wanted, but who lacked the "breeding" of folks who inherited their wealth and position. The thing is that that the "old money" set often enough were terrible at managing that old money and the estates that produced it, to say nothing of cultural changes that made the "estate system" increasingly unprofitable no matter how well the estate was managed.

When that happened, the pedigreed gentry would sell off "stuff," and among that stuff would be the patriarch's jewels, reserving his lady's baubles to the very last. And when that happened, men suddenly didn't wear jewelry. The fortunate ones who didn't have to sell off didn't so as not to rub their absence of misfortune in the nose of their friends; their friends didn't because they'd sold it off.

Please note that the preceding is my glean of information I read ages ago, mostly in various ancestors' diaries and letters Mother collected (and I helped sort through as a teen) as she to discover our family history. I don't know specifically how much jewelry my male forebears wore; I know only about the circumstances of some of them having sold it.

All the best.

[SaMaster14]

I wear my JHU class ring. Pretty similar idea I guess - solid gold with the school crest etched in. I've never gotten any hate regarding it. Not everyone can 'pull it off' I guess... and in the 21st century it isn't a big trend especially amongst younger people my age, but I guess I'm 'old fashioned' and I like wearing it.

[ipso_facto]

Not for me. No more rings for me.

If you like it ... as others have said ... 100% up to you. Jewellery is probably the most personal and intimate styling decision there is (putting aside tattoos).

[Joekerr]

I'd consider it...it would likely be no side styling as the one pictured above, and I'm not a big fan of yellow gold either. But I think I'd have to have a direct connection to my family crest...for example, my mother was born in Scotland, but I was not. Had I been born there, I would feel more strongly about wearing something to remind myself of my heritage.

However, since I was not born there and can only do a noticeably fake Scottish accent, I would not wear that crest as I would simply feel like a giant tool.

[CANGRKE70]

The ring I posted is not mine, just a signet ring off the net.

[CANGRKE70]

Originally Posted by 808@702

Your Canadian, Greek and you drive an E70. Wear what you want and don't worry what others think...

Oh trust me I don't. I only asked as it was on my desk.

[CANGRKE70]

Originally Posted by bimmette

my guess is that it's more your style, so just wear it.

Well that's a tad presumptuous...but ok. lol

[Needbmwpartzz]

As a man I would not....however..as a transvestite I indubitably would.

[CANGRKE70]

Originally Posted by Needbmwpartzz

As a man I would not....however..as a transvestite I indubitably would.

So which one are you?

[Needbmwpartzz]

I'm neither, I'm a eunuch troll

[Needbmwpartzz]

But seriously that ring should melted into a bar for an investment....way too chunky

[jeveryday]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Unless they are rappers or basketball players.

Funny how these 2 always come up but the Italian "wise guy" image is what actually birthed most of the gaudy jewelry i.e pinky rings, bracelets, chains, etc.

OP... the ring honestly isnt that bad. Esp if it has heritage and meaning behind it.

[CANGRKE70]

Originally Posted by jeveryday

OP... the ring honestly isnt that bad. Esp if it has heritage and meaning behind it.

Oh brother...that isn't actually my ring.

Don't know many Greeks with clovers in their family crest...Unless you're a bloody Panathinaikos fan...bastards!

[CANGRKE70]

Originally Posted by Needbmwpartzz

I'm neither, I'm a eunuch troll