Zenith Defy Extreme Diver Shadow 42.5mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 42.5 mm case suggests

Zenith Defy Extreme Diver Shadow 42.5mm measures 47.4 mm lug-to-lug on a 42.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.12 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 56% of the 8,010 watches in this database and longer than 80% of the 59 Zenith watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 53 mm (2.09 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 64 mm (2.52 in) it starts to look compact. Below 47.4 mm (1.87 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 15.5 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 95% of the watches with a listed thickness.