Junghans 1972 Competition Chronograph 45.5mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 45.5 mm case suggests

Junghans 1972 Competition Chronograph 45.5mm measures 41 mm lug-to-lug on a 45.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 0.90 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 90% of the 8,093 watches in this database.

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.