Lug to lug aint everything!

Arching lugs is one of the best signs that they actually tried. I am unsure if this is rather uncommon becuase it uses more metal/machining, or because it makes the lug vulnerable to damage when you do something stupid like run it over with a fire truck.

Fire trucks are out, but what types of trucks aren’t stupid to run over a watch with? Obviously I’m asking for a friend.

I think it's just that you want a big low-pressure tire, which is why giant earth-moving equipment is usually good, as are Humvees. Treaded vehicles have the sharp link edge problem. Of course this damage can also be had by dropping safes on the watch, or running over with a locomotive. Steel wheels are very bad.

Speaking of derailment, I'll note that the properly arched lugs on the Vaer C3 are a huge part of why I like that watch so much. It just comfortably stays put, no fuss, no muss. I hate stuff teeter-tottering on the wrist!

Long lugs to lugs don’t have to be negative. It helps those of us on the flip of the coin, big wrist. Mine is 8+”. LtoL is helpful when the case mm is small. It’s let’s me wear watches normally couldn’t.

I’ll stay away from F1 cars then.

Agree on the Vaer, the lugs curve nicely. I don’t give lugs a lot of thought, but it is strange some watches have straight lugs. Why wouldn’t you curve them, it seems to me that minimizing the lug to lug is always a good idea. Then again, what do I know?

Yeah, you know about the downforce issue those have. But I did see this Stallone movie Driven where the sticky tires picked up coins, so maybe it would just do that to a watch as well?

There are times when I find larger diameter watches (boo, hiss) with wide lug widths and short lugs just look disproportionately squat to me.

Long lugs are NOMOS.

The Khaki Field lug-to-lug is on the long side, but also not particularly out there and most popular watch brands seem to have plenty of watches with a similar lug-to-lug to diameter ratio. I don't really understand why people treat it like it's lug-to-lug is somehow exceptionally big.

And it shouldn't be a problem with your wrist size either. It can (just barely) fit on my 6.25-ish inch wrist, so while the image only shows it very closely, I figure it would fit your wrist perfectly well.

And Nomos sometimes gets a bad rap too. I never feel my Tangente 38 is a problem with lug to lug.

Oh yeah, their lugs are always the point of contention when it comes to their design.

I like my 36mm Club a lot, but it has the same lug-to-lug as a Khaki Field despite the smaller dial, so it fits me really well as that balances out with the small dial really well, but the 38mm one wouldn't be wearable for me due to its lug-to-lug being too big. 47mm is the biggest lug-to-lug that I find wearable.

I think the reason why they get a bad rep is because their watches don't wear like the diameter. If your wrist can't handle a 40mm dive watch, it might not handle a 36mm Nomos since the lug-to-lug is similar.

it's not everything, but it's important. I think it gets often overlook in favour of the watch diameter, but it really should be considered in proportion with each other.

My Hamilton Murph 38 is really on an edge of what I'd consider too big for my 6.5 wrist. I'd rather prefer it in 36mm, but with the same lug-to-lug and lug width dimensions. But then, it will lose some of its bubbly character.

The other important aspect is the colour of the dial, the case shape and the actual dial diameter. Watches with a white dials and thin/non-functional bezels will look much more substantial on a wrist, than a black divers with a same dimensions. I can see myself wearing 40mm Sub, but DayDate 40 looks absolutely enormous to my eye, while also having the Oyster case. But, once again, I'm that strange dude, that got into bigger watches, disliked the look and started to go down. With a case shape it's obvious, small Tanks look really substantial for their sizes. And this EXTRA LARGE modern Tank Cartier offers is just insanely big. Like cartoonish big. Even tho the numbers are not that big.

I wouldn't mind a 34mm NOMOS, or better yet a 27.5mm NOMOS Tetra.

I mean, common, it's gorgeous, innit? I don't know if it's a ladies model, but not that I care.

Lugs are pretty nice here, I really like how the whole design works.

Even tho I dislike the NOMOS lug-to-lug hyper compensation, I don't have a problem with the brand, because they offering different case sizes, so if I don't like the lugs of 36mm, I can go with a 34 with no problem.