I think the smaller one looks fine in the picture but I know that when I’ve tried on a watch that was on the smaller side, it looks bigger in the picture that when I’m looking at it irl. Hope that made sense. I personally would go with the bigger one. It looks good on your wrist and the bigger size isn’t an exaggerated size like a 50mm or anything like that.
I like to think I’m pretty careful with my watches. I don’t baby them but I don’t give them a hard time either.