Grand Seiko Elegance Collection 39.5mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 39.5 mm case suggests

Grand Seiko Elegance Collection 39.5mm measures 39.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 39.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.00 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 93% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 92% of the 232 Grand Seiko watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 44 mm (1.73 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 53 mm (2.09 in) it starts to look compact. Below 39.5 mm (1.56 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.