G-Shock GCWB5000 Carbon Edition 45mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 45 mm case suggests

Casio G-Shock GCWB5000 Carbon Edition 45mm measures 49.1 mm lug-to-lug on a 45 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.09 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 77% of the 8,010 watches in this database and longer than 40% of the 95 Casio watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 55 mm (2.17 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 66 mm (2.60 in) it starts to look compact. Below 49.1 mm (1.93 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 14.5 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 89% of the watches with a listed thickness.