Cartier Tank Basculante 25mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 25 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Basculante 25mm measures 39 mm lug-to-lug on a 25 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.56 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 93% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 54% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 44 mm (1.73 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 52 mm (2.05 in) it starts to look compact. Below 39 mm (1.54 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.