Engineer Hydrocarbon Submarine Warfare Chronograph 42mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 42 mm case suggests

Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon Submarine Warfare Chronograph 42mm measures 53.55 mm lug-to-lug on a 42 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.27 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 97% of the 7,413 watches in this database and longer than 93% of the 222 Ball watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 60 mm (2.36 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 72 mm (2.83 in) it starts to look compact. Below 53.55 mm (2.11 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 17.9 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 99% of the watches with a listed thickness.