Anyone with a 36mm watch with a 7inch wrist or so?

34mm on my 7.25in wrist

Wow much much much better than I visualized. Bracelet seems to be helpful and balancing.

I think 36 is ideal for anyone in that size range. I'm just under 7" and, for my taste, 38 is bordering on too big, especially for a non-diving watch.

33mm on 18.5cm (7.25”)

It will look great you are fine

35mm on 7 1/4"wrist

Yeah, nah, yeah . . . That's just fine. No worries.

Great review. Nice color of the combat sub!!

Great idea to use it for four months as well. Now I feel bad doing reviews after a week 😜

Lug to lug is 43mm, it will look good

To give you an idea, on my 7 inch "flat" wrist:

35.9mm👇

34.6mm 👇

33.7mm👇

The Swatch, although it doesn't look that bad in pictures, feels and looks a little small in real life. I had this since grade school, and don't wear it anymore. The other two I wear regularly, even though a majority of my collection is 42mm + divers.

38mm on 7.5” wrist.

Wow I really like that first watch and it looks great on your wrist! Thanks for these.

The cat table cloth may be skewing my opinion favorably though.

One thing I've noticed is that the size of a watch appears different depending on how you are viewing it. I have a 36mm watch that I feel looks perfectly sized for my 6.75" wrist when viewed head on, but tends to look a bit on the small side when viewing it at certain angles while wearing it. I think part of that is the difference in size between the watch itself and the bracelet - from certain angles the bracelet width seems to make the watch itself look disproportionally small.

7.5" wrist and 32mm watch for a classic vintage vibe. Perfect 👍

I'm right around 7 1/4 as well and own a few watches between 36 & 38mm pictured below. The lug-to-lug and case shapes are really the more important factors than the diameter. The only ones that I ever think look small on me have really tight lugs (the vintage Hamilton 37mm chrono and the 35mm Paketa, which both have simple, round cases with very short lugs) but even those look perfectly right about 5 minutes after putting them on. Like anything prone to arbitrary changes in fashion trends, once you get used to it, it feels right, and suddenly you'll have to adjust in the opposite direction when your 40mm+ watches start to look unnecessarily huge. Or, to look at it another way, Steve McQueen still looked plenty cool rocking a 34mm Benrus in Bullitt, so what do any of us need to worry about?

it on...

Yeah. I guess it all depends on you. I see a lot of post with “7 inch wrist, 38 too big 36 perfect”, with a wrist shot, and I think they look small on their wrist. I, too have a 7 inch wrist, and I have only one watch that is smaller than 40, a 38mm Orient “Bambino”, wore it this weekend, first time I wore it for a whole day and I looked at throughout the day and thought, it looks kind of small for my wrist. So it depends on you. If it looks small then to You, it’s too small, and no amount of people telling you otherwise will change that.

It’s very watch dependent. An Explorer 36 looks good to me on me (6.7”/17 cm wrist), but the 37mm Black Bay 54 looked too small for me. My Seamaster Pro GMT looks kind of big on the bracelet, but on a strap it’s more nicely proportioned. It’s a combination of overall diameter, bezel width, lug to lug distance, thickness, bracelet/strap bulk/presence, and color. Meaning - every watch will look different!

It’s also very person dependent. The Seamaster Deep Sea is big on me … but I saw a 5’-nothing woman with very slim wrists buying one the other day and she wore it well. I’m sure the same would apply to smaller watches: If you feel like you can rock something, you probably can; if you are unsure, you probably can’t.

And keep in mind that watches look bigger on wrist shots than they would in person, due to perspective.

38mm on 7.25 inch wrist

I have a 6” wrist and 36mm is perfect for me , I have a 39mm Ranger and I dare say that’s my upper limit for a comfortable watch . I think a 39mm watch would look like a 36mm watch on your wrist , try on a 36mm on a bracelet that would probably look ok and wear a bit bigger, if your thinking of the BB36 on a bracelet I think it would probably look slick , dressy…

Only, that's not a tablecloth, those are his pajamas, lol

A lot of kick ass watch photos in this thread & I'm all for it but also a lot of "in the ball park" of what was requested. Here is a 36mm watch on an exactly 7'' wrist. Hope it helps you in what ever you were searching for.

(Model is a Lorier Falcon from a Mini watch fair 2 weeks ago)

Hear me out. Wrist size and hand size should both be considered when evaluating case size.

I have a 7” flat wrist, but smaller hands. Smaller case sizes, under 39mm, do not look proportional when I wear them. They look alright when I make a fist, but with my fingers extended it just doesn’t look right.

I'll say this about people with larger wrist though. This is where you can rock those watches with long, flat lugs.

Where we have to go for Seiko and it's short, itty-bitty lugs to wear larger diameter watches you guys can rock smaller watches with longer lugs easy.

It´s hard to go too small.....but easy to go too big

34 mm on 7 inch

Not 36mm but 37mm with 44mm lug to lug. And my wrist is about 7.75 inch.

Somebody call a priest…

If you are used to something larger, give your 36mm a two week period on your wrist, by the end of it you'll love the size and many watches will feel unnecessarily big

I have even smaller sizes of watches, all vintage, for my 7.5 inches wrist. The small size wouldn’t bother you that much when you like the watch or have a history with it in the past. It’s my opinion. I wouldn’t purchase any new watch I’d smaller than 38mm. But keep using and enjoying the old small ones very much.

For some reason 36mm looks great in photos but seems really mall on my 7.25 wrist...can't figure that out.