Ballon Bleu 36mm 36.6mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 36.6 mm case suggests

Cartier Ballon Bleu 36mm 36.6mm measures 38 mm lug-to-lug on a 36.6 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.04 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 94% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 59% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 43 mm (1.69 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 51 mm (2.01 in) it starts to look compact. Below 38 mm (1.50 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.