Grand Seiko Evolution 9 Manual-winding Hi-Beat 36000 80 Hours 38.6mm

How it wears

Wears true to its 38.6 mm case size

Grand Seiko Evolution 9 Manual-winding Hi-Beat 36000 80 Hours 38.6mm measures 45 mm lug-to-lug on a 38.6 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.17 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 70% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 68% of the 232 Grand Seiko watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 50 mm (1.97 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 60 mm (2.36 in) it starts to look compact. Below 45 mm (1.77 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 9.95 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 83% of the watches with a listed thickness.