Does this look stupid?

Stop looking at "watch size guides" (many years of collecting and this is the first time I've ever heard of them) and wear whatever the hell you want.

I sometimes wear a 46mm watch on my meager 6.75” wrist. Some may think it looks too big. I think it looks bad ass! 

People on principle won't give squat about what watch you're wearing. It's not the whole wide world that has to like what's on your wrist, it's you. 

Dude, wear what you desire. Sizing guide?…What? Just another nail in our coffins of individuality. Look at how groovin‘ my little Kit Cat watch looks on my wrist.

8.25" wrist here, rock what you want. 

36mm, not always but why not. 

I have a 7.5" wrist and wear watches from 34-75. Well maybe not the 75 that much. Wear what makes you happy. 

Anything you want except the Kit Cat watch!  Lol.  JK.  Looks fine.  

my man! you got a monster of a wrist. 

Bulk is often determined by thickness rather than diameter. If you want something that appears larger but wears smaller, look into thin watches. The Glycine Combat Subs in 42mm or 46mm are very thin automatics you might try. There are all sorts of ultra thin quartz watches on the market. Also, I see you are wearing a double pass NATO -- get yourself a single pass strap or regular two-piece band to move the watch down closer to your wrist. As an aside, the 40mm Invicta is a tall, skinny, and tippy versus some larger watches. 

Dude might as well wear a wall clock 😂... I kid..I kid…

that’s awesome !! I had one patient one time came in with an invicta spiderman watch I believe it was like 45 or 46 mm and he even told me that had a hulk one that’s bigger… I was like a kid drooling over marvel watches 😂

If it’s comfortable rock it! And if you love it rock it harder!! 😉

You and I would be instant besties if I saw you down the pub in this bad boy 👍

If I went by the sizing guides I'd have to ditch 95% of my collection. Your Invicta looks awesome. Wear what you love 👍

Wear what you like, but I think you need something bigger. You may be even be able to pull of an IWC Big Pilot. 

It looks fine 👌 Don't worry about it. That being said, there is a lot of divers out there in 40-45mm so I think this is a luxury problem 😅 You can wear a 45mm in ways I can only dream of 💪

I see any complaint about the watches i wear as a challenge. Only another alpha would do that. Self confidence keeps me from caring about opinions other than my own anyway.

The first rule in watch collecting (IMHO) is just wear what you like and what you want. If you like it, don’t sweat it. 
 

I have an 8.5” wrist and dont feel comfortable with watches under 42mm. The watch in your photo does look small to me but who cares what I think! 

Ahh... go bigger lets break records!

YUP!!! 🫣

It looks fine.  

Big watches, small watches who cares? You have to like it yourself, there is a reason you obtained that watch, something in your brain tells you ’yup, this is the size I like’ if anyone else has a problem with that (trust me nobody cares) then that’s their problem. That watch suits your taste and the size is perfectly OK.

My rule of thumb is that with the width of you index and middle fingers together should cover the face of your watch horizontally and vertically. too small if dissapears, too big if overhangs.

The internet has totally screwed up an enjoyable hobby.

When I started to collect watches we didn't use loupes,never heard of a timegrapher, had no clue if our quartz seconds hands were hitting the markers, set our watches ,maybe, once a week. 

Then social media "experts" told us what to wear when doing what, the importance of buffing out the most minor sign of wear, that if your watch wasn't regulated to COSC specs it wasn't accurate enough, and that they,not you knew what suited you best.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go outside and yell at a cloud and you better not be on my lawn when I get back!

I am not sure it is fair to blame just the internet for screwing up this hobby with concerns about size of wrist and watch ratio. Social media influencers take much more blame in my mind for introducing ridiculous standards on size and other aspects of watch collecting. I have seen so many YouTube videos from various watch hobby channels discussing aspects of the way a watch fits on a wrist; lugs should not overhang, watch dial should occupy a certain proportion of your wrist, watch should be worn on, or just above, or just below the wrist bone (I have actually seen all three promoted as the correct position 🤣), what style of watch fits which situations, etc. (I watch a lot of different channels looking for the ones I like). At least some of them include a weak disclaimer about wearing what you want. The worst example I can think of was Tom Ford's ridiculous list of rules for wearing watches.

The internet is simply the medium, and I would say it is more like a mixed blessing or a cloud with a silver lining. After all, the internet makes WatchCrunch possible, but the very openness of it means we get the good and bad together, even if it seems like there is far more of the bad. 😂

That is why I pay no attention to internet Influencers. Most of them don’t have a clue. 

In your case, I think a 44mm would be good.

Rock what ever you like on your wrist  - I’ve got 32mm “lady style” watches in my collection and wear it ✅👌

I don't get into stuff like that I have an 8 1/2" wrist and wear 34mm to 46mm watches. I would say to wear whatever you like. 

Disappointingly, no, it does not look stupid. I honestly clicked on this hoping I would see something asinine, like a short skinny person wearing a watch the size of a hockey puck, but this is just a picture of an average diver on a tasteful NATO strap.

Upon further research (and a caliper measurement) the Big Invicta is actually 60mm, not the 75mm I stated. Not sure where I got that 75mm number now. I blame the internet. Still my largest watch, sorry Aragon....