Cartier Tank Américaine Steel Small 19mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 19 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Américaine Steel Small 19mm measures 34.8 mm lug-to-lug on a 19 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.83 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 97% of the 8,010 watches in this database and shorter than 75% 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 47 mm (1.85 in) it starts to look compact. Below 34.8 mm (1.37 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.