Ballon Bleu 28mm 28.6mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 28.6 mm case suggests

Cartier Ballon Bleu 28mm 28.6mm measures 29.7 mm lug-to-lug on a 28.6 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.04 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 99% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 89% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 33 mm (1.30 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 40 mm (1.57 in) it starts to look compact. Below 29.7 mm (1.17 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.