Santos de Cartier 27mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 27 mm case suggests

Cartier Santos de Cartier 27mm measures 34.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 27 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.28 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 97% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 76% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 39 mm (1.54 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 46 mm (1.81 in) it starts to look compact. Below 34.5 mm (1.36 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 7.08 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 97% of the watches with a listed thickness.