Longines Elegance La Grande Classique de Longines 38mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 38 mm case suggests

Longines Elegance La Grande Classique de Longines 38mm measures 43 mm lug-to-lug on a 38 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.13 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 83% of the 8,054 watches in this database and shorter than 60% of the 495 Longines watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 48 mm (1.89 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 58 mm (2.28 in) it starts to look compact. Below 43 mm (1.69 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.