DB28xs Purple Rain 38.7mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 38.7 mm case suggests

De Bethune DB28xs Purple Rain 38.7mm measures 48.7 mm lug-to-lug on a 38.7 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.26 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 72% of the 7,421 watches in this database and longer than 40% of the 10 De Bethune watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 55 mm (2.17 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 65 mm (2.56 in) it starts to look compact. Below 48.7 mm (1.92 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 7.4 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 97% of the watches with a listed thickness.