Vintage Gondole (auction example) 30mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 30 mm case suggests

Boucheron Vintage Gondole (auction example) 30mm measures 28 mm lug-to-lug on a 30 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 0.93 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 99% of the 7,421 watches in this database.

A flat wrist width of 32 mm (1.26 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 38 mm (1.50 in) it starts to look compact. Below 28 mm (1.10 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.