Blancpain Villeret Grande Date Jour Rétrograde 40.5mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 40.5 mm case suggests

Blancpain Villeret Grande Date Jour Rétrograde 40.5mm measures 45.1 mm lug-to-lug on a 40.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.11 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 68 Blancpain watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 51 mm (2.01 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 61 mm (2.40 in) it starts to look compact. Below 45.1 mm (1.78 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.