Hampton Automatic 27.5mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 27.5 mm case suggests

Baume & Mercier Hampton Automatic 27.5mm measures 43 mm lug-to-lug on a 27.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.56 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 83% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 89% of the 9 Baume & Mercier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 48 mm (1.89 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 58 mm (2.28 in) it starts to look compact. Below 43 mm (1.69 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 10 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 84% of the watches with a listed thickness.