Method and device for executing operation

The invention discloses a method and a device for executing an operation and belongs to the field of wearable equipment. The method comprises the steps as follows: obtaining a wearing state of the wearable equipment which is bound when monitoring that a payment operation is executed and using a manner based on identity authentication of the wearable equipment, wherein the wearing state comprises the wearing state and a not-wearing state; detecting whether the wearing state is the not-wearing state; forbidding executing the payment operation if the wearing state is the not-wearing state, or replacing the manner based on the identity authentication of the wearable equipment as other identity authentication manner. The method and the device solve the problem that the manner based on the identity authentication of the wearable equipment could be not safe when a user does not wear the wearable equipment so as to solve the problem that the network property of the user could be effectively protected even though the user does not wear the wearable equipment.