Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Acciaio 42mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 42 mm case suggests

Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Acciaio 42mm measures 51 mm lug-to-lug on a 42 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 89% of the 8,010 watches in this database and longer than 41% of the 27 Panerai watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 57 mm (2.24 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 68 mm (2.68 in) it starts to look compact. Below 51 mm (2.01 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 14.5 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 89% of the watches with a listed thickness.