DS-1 Powermatic 80 38mm

How it wears

Wears true to its 38 mm case size

Certina DS-1 Powermatic 80 38mm measures 45 mm lug-to-lug on a 38 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.18 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 70% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 40% of the 52 Certina watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 50 mm (1.97 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 60 mm (2.36 in) it starts to look compact. Below 45 mm (1.77 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 11 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 26% of the watches with a listed thickness.