Are you comfortable with big watch?

[Dave123]

If you are a little guy,little watch.....big guy,big watch....forget wrist size,means nothing....anything under 46mm won't cut it here.....if you are 3 apples tall,different story....

[yisuspoul]

With more and more rep of big watch, and the demand seem to be for big watches, if your wrist can handle it, are you comfortable (psychologically) to wear these big watch like 44mm, 46mm watches and more ?

After the PAM disease infected me, for me, the "normal" watch size is 44mm

[Fish]

It all depends on the watch. I really love wearing 44mm PAMs but can

[ironmarshal]

I completely agree with By-Tor on this one...nothing over 43mm for me either. I went to the AD to try on the 45 PO and the sheer size of it made it feel unbalanced and uncomfortable. I don't have any large watches, and never will.

[RRFAN]

I have a 6.5" wrist (tiny) and love big watches.

My favorite is a 49mm bentley and I have a Super Avenger on its way. Big watches are uncomfortable though by the end of a day, but I couldn't care less.

I also have smaller watches. I wear my sub regularly and also a chopard and tag (both 42mm)

I am 6'2" though so big watches don't really look out of place. I wear them loose too which adds to the effect.

Couldn't really give two shiits what anyone else thinks, if its frowned upon by the watch community. I always get compliments on my watches and love the look of an oversized piece.

[whitestripes]

Is this too big? Or are we talking ridiculously big ones?

[blade007]

Is this too big? Or are we talking ridiculously big ones?

that looks nice and is a sensible size too

[professor_yaffle1]

I agree with several others that it depends on both the watch and the wearer, my own preference is for larger watches, at 6' tall with 8" wrists, I can wear most 44/45mm watches quite comfortably, but I wouldn't really want to go much bigger than 47mm.

My daily watch is the 45mm PO, and I absolutely love it - it's relatively flat profile sits perfectly on my wrist, and fits under all of my work shirts, whereas my SFSO feels top heavy and awkward.

I really like some of the old vintage rollies, and would love a 5512 or 1655, but when I tried to wear a sub, my wife laughed and commented that it looked like a 'ladies watch'; but that could just be that she's so used to me wearing oversize watches, or that she just wanted the sub for herself

Its interesting to see that some maintain this notion that 40mm is the optimum size - where did this come from? Don't get me wrong, I'm not disputing that this may well be the optimum size, and, statistically speaking it may cover up to the 90th percentile, which would be sufficient ground to support such a claim, but......

if we went back to first principles and did a clean-sheet design for a watch, today, it's size would be a factor of several components,

• mechanism size/type
  cost
  average wrist size of target market
  dial/hand size for readability
  use, i.e. would it need to be waterproof, shockproof etc.
  

The variables inherent in each of the above would seem to indicate that the resultant design solution would either be a 'one size fits all' broad compromise, or several different designs.

Wear whatever makes you happy