Cartier Maillon de Cartier 16mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 16 mm case suggests

Cartier Maillon de Cartier 16mm measures 17 mm lug-to-lug on a 16 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.06 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 100% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 99% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 19 mm (0.75 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 23 mm (0.91 in) it starts to look compact. Below 17 mm (0.67 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 6.8 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 97% of the watches with a listed thickness.