Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Large Date and Moon-Phases 35.25mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 35.25 mm case suggests

Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Large Date and Moon-Phases 35.25mm measures 36.1 mm lug-to-lug on a 35.25 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.02 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 96% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 80% of the 10 Girard-Perregaux watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 41 mm (1.61 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 49 mm (1.93 in) it starts to look compact. Below 36.1 mm (1.42 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.