Cartier Tank Américaine Steel Large 26.6mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 26.6 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Américaine Steel Large 26.6mm measures 45.1 mm lug-to-lug on a 26.6 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.70 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 70% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 26% of the 196 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 51 mm (2.01 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 61 mm (2.40 in) it starts to look compact. Below 45.1 mm (1.78 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.