Cartier Tank Française Small 2023 21.2mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 21.2 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Française Small 2023 21.2mm measures 25.7 mm lug-to-lug on a 21.2 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 100% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 96% of the 193 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 29 mm (1.14 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 35 mm (1.38 in) it starts to look compact. Below 25.7 mm (1.01 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.