Breitling Superocean Heritage '57 42mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 42 mm case suggests

Breitling Superocean Heritage '57 42mm measures 46 mm lug-to-lug on a 42 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.10 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 60% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 77% of the 298 Breitling watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 52 mm (2.05 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 62 mm (2.44 in) it starts to look compact. Below 46 mm (1.81 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.