Chronomat Automatic 36

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 36 mm case suggests

Breitling Chronomat Automatic 36 measures 39.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 36 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.10 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 93% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 95% of the 298 Breitling watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 44 mm (1.73 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 53 mm (2.09 in) it starts to look compact. Below 39.5 mm (1.56 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 9.68 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 88% of the watches with a listed thickness.