DS-8 Chronograph Moon Phase 42mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 42 mm case suggests

Certina DS-8 Chronograph Moon Phase 42mm measures 41 mm lug-to-lug on a 42 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 0.98 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 90% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 58% of the 52 Certina watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 46 mm (1.81 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 55 mm (2.17 in) it starts to look compact. Below 41 mm (1.61 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 11.8 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 40% of the watches with a listed thickness.