Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Automatic 27.75mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 27.75 mm case suggests

Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Automatic 27.75mm measures 38.1 mm lug-to-lug on a 27.75 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.37 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 94% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 58% of the 193 Cartier watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 43 mm (1.69 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 51 mm (2.01 in) it starts to look compact. Below 38.1 mm (1.50 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 8.18 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 93% of the watches with a listed thickness.