How Do You Feel about the Trend towards Smaller Watches?

I'll be first. 7.5" wrist and I voted smaller watches are good. 😁

I went from a 46mm average to a 40 pretty quick lol

C) I like and own both smaller and larger (within reason) watches. Just depends on my mood and what I feel like wearing. 36mm to 42mm.

I like watches.

I like this, which is 34mm on a good day 😂:

And I have this, which is much, much bigger 😂:

I’m more comfortable with watches on the smaller end of my acceptable range. So I’m glad to see more options becoming available.

All for it. Makes a watch easier to wear

38-42 is normally where I look. Have gone larger but never smaller.

I have a 6.5" wrist and watches from 36mm to 41mm dial size. Although I love all of them, I find 38mm watches sit more comfortably on my wrist and hence they get more wrist time than the others. Not sure about the trend but after all these years of owning and trying various pieces, I've finally decided not to buy watches with lug to lug of more than 46mm. Those suit my wrist with any kind of strap or bracelet.

Smaller watches...?

I don't want to see and wear a water meter on my wrist.

As a 6.3” wristed guy, I love the trend towards smaller watches.

As a 7.5 er small watches seems even smaller on my wrists than they really are. But as i prefer the bigger side my only two real small watches (my casio moon- and cosmo- phase) will not see that much wrist time

Here's some cool data I found on the Everest website.

While the average wrist size is 7.25", more than 50% of the population actually fall below that size. The market for smaller watches may actually be the majority of consumers.

I have about a 7.3" wrist. I wear watches of various sizes if i like the watch I wear it.

I love the trend for smaller watches. I shall be lurking in the shadows of eBay to snap up the trend followers ‘oversized’ watches super cheap Mwa ha haaa 😎😎

I enjoy both 😂

The tiny one is indeed mechanical and the movement is ridiculously small!

About time. 38-39mm is the sweet spot.

Smaller watches, yeah, I guess. But where are the 34mm, i.e. small, options.

Currently we have, some XXL, plenty of XL and L and a very limited but growing selection of size M. I say this as someone with a size S wrist, 16cm.

The Black bay 54 for example, that is a smaller diver but not a small watch. I'd describe this as more of an overdue riddance of huge watches, too big for almost everybody, rather than a trend to smaller in my opinion. Which is okay, nothing wrong with making average size watches for average sized wrists, but I would like smaller ones.

I have three watches at 31mm - 7.5 inch wrist - love to wear them

So no Diesel watches? 😁

I have a 7.5" wrist. I have many vintage men's watches that would be considered women's in today's fashion. I wear them regardless of size. They always say that fashion styles and trends always come back around. Smaller watches coming back wouldn't bother me at all. It doesn't matter, as long as I like it, I wear it. That's most important. I will be wearing all sizes as I do now so the only difference I will see is while buying something new.

It's the same old topic, and the same old story, seemingly every week. The basic answer is that people come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Small watches look great on tiny guys. They wave their arm around and say, "Look how awesome this looks on me!" And it does - because you're a tiny little man. If a 300 pound, 6'5" dude wears the same watch, it looks a bit silly and they could be wearing something more proportional to their body. "But complication, don't you know that, once upon a time all men wore small watches? All those goddamn heroes of WW2 - tiny watches! So... you're wrong!" Well, not really. Because in those historical photos, tiny watches still look weird on the big dudes, too. But hey, whatever floats your boat. So the 'trend' to small watches excites some people, for sure. And good on them. But for average to larger dudes, watches in the 41-43mm range remain excellent choices, and will continue to be bought.

It is about time (no pun intended)! I hope the market doesn’t swing too hard and leave larger-wristed people and big-watch lovers high and dry, but the shift back towards more modest sizes is way overdue!

Wow, that watch itself looks great and so does it on your wrist. I guess I'll go for it. It's like 20€ so what can go wrong. Thx for your help.

My wrist is almost scratching the 8" mark, so I voted B. Yeah, there are still plenty of big watches available, but the trend is moving towards "the smaller the better", with some manufacturers even completely abandoning the 43 (and above) mm category, and instead just releasing smaller updates of their most popular watches. My very first automatic was a Seiko 5 with 37 mm, and it actually looked like a toy on my wrist. Over the years, I've noticed that 40 mm is my sweet spot. Everything below that higly depends on the lug-to-lug, but most of the time, it's just too small. The only exception to this rule are digital watches. For some reason, I don't mind the smaller size here.

Does not work for me. Full stop.

I have a 20cm wrist and big hands so smaller watches look silly on me, I can" just about" get away with my 39mm Baltic so I'm no fan of this "Asian wrists are smaller" inspired trend. In fact, I have just purchased a Black Bay heritage 41(pics shall be posted ad nauseum when pick it up!) as the bb58 looked small and the bb54 looked downright laughable. Workin' men need workin' watches!

Don't like it to be honest. I consider 40-43 to be the sweat sport depending on the type of watch at least for me on a 6 3/4 wrist. I fell for the trend and went with a 38mm on my khaki field, I love the watch just wish I would have gone with the 42mm

6.75” and my collection consists of almost all 36mm watches but I prefer “vintage” proportions and have owned 40mm in the past. Honestly, wear whatever size you prefer although, in my opinion, when the lugs noticeably overhang your wrist, it’s probably too big

7.5” 38.5-42 is my ideal size. Lug to Lug <49

I have a 7.25 in wrist. I wear 34 to 46 mm cases. 38 to 43 seems to be my sweet spot depending on the lugs, but there is one fundamental.... The man, or.woman wears the watch, the watch doesn't wear the man or woman. When you put on your first, well tailored suit there is nothing else like it. Watches are the same in experience. A fine time piece won't make you cool, so wear whatcha want ...