Baume & Mercier Riviera 50th Anniversary Special Edition 42.1mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 42.1 mm case suggests

Baume & Mercier Riviera 50th Anniversary Special Edition 42.1mm measures 51.6 mm lug-to-lug on a 42.1 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.23 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 94% of the 8,010 watches in this database and longer than 89% of the 9 Baume & Mercier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 58 mm (2.28 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 69 mm (2.72 in) it starts to look compact. Below 51.6 mm (2.03 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.

At 10.66 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 78% of the watches with a listed thickness.