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They may look like "straight dress" watches by today's standards but what qualified a watch as a sports watch back then wasn't design but technological content.
From the late 1930's up until about 1960 a sports watch was a watch with a fully jeweled shock-resistant time-only movement fitted in a sturdy all stainless steel/at least 20 micron gold-filled stainless steel back case with anti-magnetic and water resistant properties.
People who could afford to and whose line of work made it a necessity were wearing sports watches, and if naught else then advertising and their relatively high price starting from half a month's wage of a skilled worker made them aware of it.
Pic rel is the LIP "expedition watch" worn by Maurice Herzog on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition.