Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 500 Fathoms 48mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 48 mm case suggests

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 500 Fathoms 48mm measures 53.3 mm lug-to-lug on a 48 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.11 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 97% of the 8,010 watches in this database and longer than 96% of the 68 Blancpain watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 60 mm (2.36 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 72 mm (2.83 in) it starts to look compact. Below 53.3 mm (2.10 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.