Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Medium 25.5mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 25.5 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Medium 25.5mm measures 33.7 mm lug-to-lug on a 25.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.32 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 97% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 77% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 38 mm (1.50 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 45 mm (1.77 in) it starts to look compact. Below 33.7 mm (1.33 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.