Santos-Dumont Small 27.5mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 27.5 mm case suggests

Cartier Santos-Dumont Small 27.5mm measures 38.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 27.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.40 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 94% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 55% 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 52 mm (2.05 in) it starts to look compact. Below 38.5 mm (1.52 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.