Zenshin Three-Hand 39mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 39 mm case suggests

Citizen Zenshin Three-Hand 39mm measures 44 mm lug-to-lug on a 39 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.13 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 78% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 92% of the 53 Citizen watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 49 mm (1.93 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 59 mm (2.32 in) it starts to look compact. Below 44 mm (1.73 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 10 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 84% of the watches with a listed thickness.