Pilot's Automatic Chronograph 43mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 43 mm case suggests

IWC Pilot's Automatic Chronograph 43mm measures 53.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 43 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.24 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 97% of the 7,421 watches in this database and longer than 90% of the 42 IWC watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 60 mm (2.36 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 72 mm (2.83 in) it starts to look compact. Below 53.5 mm (2.11 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.