Bell & Ross Aviation Instruments Black Dial 42mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 42 mm case suggests

Bell & Ross Aviation Instruments Black Dial 42mm measures 42 mm lug-to-lug on a 42 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.00 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 86% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 39% of the 49 Bell & Ross watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 47 mm (1.85 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 56 mm (2.20 in) it starts to look compact. Below 42 mm (1.65 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.