I wear my Apple Watch reverse crown, and control the crown and button with my thumb. I find it better in every way.
Curious to see if anyone else has tried it and what your thoughts are.
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Yes, and I agree itās much better for the crown. I find the side button a little bit awkward. My index finger still wants to find it on the top right. 
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I do and have worn it that way since shortly after getting my first watch (a series 0).
I found that I was pressing the buttons at work when Iād bend my wrist so turned it around. It still happens from time to time but nowhere as often as when the buttons were on the other side.
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Same. With workouts and bent wrist it would occ get pressed. Now itās out of the way.
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I had to try it this weekend while doing yardwork as my glove kept doing something to make the watch think it was off my wrist and go into lock mode.
It seemed weird. Maybe I just need to give it a few days of continuous usage.
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There are times when Iām working out that I wish I could turn off the physical buttons because they have caused issues before by getting bumped.
Reverse crown reduces that significantly, especially if youāre doing things like pushups that bend your hand back.
But your comment has me thinking that if you really want to turn off the physical buttons, you could activate the water lock. You have to hold down the crown for a while to disable it, which would be hard to do accidentally, especially if youāre wearing it reverse crown.
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I was taught by a random woman who sold me a Timex when I was 12 (circa 1990) that the watch should be worn up past your wrist bone. Thatās where I wear mine and I canāt recall ever having the crown triggered by accident. Iāve owned Apple Watches since series 2.
I think the crown facing the wrong way looks weird and would never wear it that way, nor do I feel the need to but hey - whatever blows your hair back.
To each their own.
I wear it reversed on my right wrist. Iām left-handed so it works pretty well. The left wrist has my ārealā watch. Yes, two watches looks a bit dorky. 
I only started doing this recently and might put the real watch away again at some point.
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Thatās where Apple recommends wearing it for the most accurate bio readings.
Thereās speculation among reverse-crown advocates that Apple has always known it was ergonomically superior to wear it that way (which it is), and thatās why itās been an option in the settings from the beginning. But they didnāt make it the default because of most peopleās prejudice from wearing traditional watches.
Both functionally and in the way itās manipulated, the digital ācrownā on an Apple Watch is fundamentally different from the crown on a traditional watch, which is typically not used while wearing the watch. Instead, the watch is held in the left hand and the crown is twirled between the right thumb and forefinger to set the time or wind the mechanism.
On an Apple watch, the digital crown is supposed to be used while wearing it, and is both a button and a dial. The larger pad of your thumb can get a longer roll on the crown than your index finger, and itās easier to push the crown and side button with your thumb while your index and middle finger brace the watch on the other side.
Reverse crown also places the digital crown, which is typically used more often than the side button, closer to the user where itās easier to reach.
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I find it easier to reach with the crown facing the expected way. I am a lefty who wears the watch on their left wrist. I find it much easier to use my right hand to just hit the crown when I need it than to go further up my left arm and over the watch to get to the crown. I donāt personally understand how moving the crown to the far side makes anything easier.
I didnāt know this was possible until reading this thread. Always been frustrated by the crown touching my hand when I bent my wrist and inadvertantly had something unexpected and unwanted display on the screen. Now changed my Watch to reverse crown. Maybe it will help me take screenshots which Iāve never managed to achieved with a right-side crown and the side-button.
Must remember when I put the Watch on in the morning that I have switched it.
It will probably take a week or two for you to get used to it. Itās a big muscle memory change. But now it feels weird to use it the other way. 
Although the first week of running my Apple Watch with reverse crown is not up I have switched it back. Since the reverse there have been no readings for Cardio Fitness (VO2 max) when doing an outdoor walk workout. Coincides with my use of Nordic Walking Poles but other data on the watch tells me I am still walking at the same pace (18ā to 19ā per mile). Will see after todayās walk with the poles whether the original orientation gives me a reading.
Huh. Itās weird because wearing it that way is an official option in the settings, and people have been doing it since the early Apple Watches. Which model do you have, and is thereās any other way you wear it out of the ordinary?
Interesting! I think it depends on your arm anatomy. If I try to wear my watch above (closer to the elbow) to the wrist bone, it eventually slides down to sit at the base of my hand. And itās then too loose, so itās no longer unlocked.
I got a lot of incorrect crown activations until I learned I could reverse it.
Also, rolling the crown with my thumb is easier and more comfortable for me (hello hypermobility + arthritis), and this way I can stabilize the watch with my index finger.
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I find that my index and middle finger naturally stabilize the whole edge opposite the buttons much better than my thumb did before I switched to reverse crown. And like you, I find it easier to roll the crown with my thumb.
Using an Apple watch 9. As far as I know there is nothing extraordinary about how I wear it; left wrist and originally right crown but for six days switched to left crown. Four complications on display: Reminders, Battery, Workouts, and Mindfulness all of which have been selected pretty much since the first day I bought the watch.
On the switchback there was no Cardio Fitness recorded despite my pace with the Nordic Wlking Poles was identical to my natural walking pace.
Beginning to wonder if the arm movements (march-like swinging) with the poles is interfering with the selected Outdoor Walk option in Workouts. (Hoping that the expected āCross Country Skiingā workout in WatchOS 11 might ultimately solve the issue as one of the original ideas for Nordic Walking Poles was summer-time/snow-less ski training.)
As one of the acknowledged benefits for Nordic Walking with poles is improved Cardio Fitness/VO2Max Health Benefits of Nordic Walking: A Systematic Review tracking my own improvement is important,
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