Vintage Tank-Style Watch (auction example) 20mm
Vintage Tank-Style Auction Example 2019
How it wears
Wears larger than its 20 mm case suggests
Longines Vintage Tank-Style Watch (auction example) 20mm measures 37 mm lug-to-lug on a 20 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.85 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 95% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 74% of the 495 Longines watches listed.
A flat wrist width of 42 mm (1.65 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 50 mm (1.97 in) it starts to look compact. Below 37 mm (1.46 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.
Wrist fit analyzer
Fit reference
Leaves generous margin on both sides, matching classic and dress-watch proportions.
Sources
- https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/bring-a-loupe-april-12-2019
Hodinkee reports 37mm lug-to-lug, 20mm case size/width for Longines Vintage Tank-Style Watch (auction example) in “Bring a Loupe: A 1960 Vulcain Cricket Nautical, A Longines Tank With A Bakelite Box, And A WOSTEP-Made Triple Date Moonphase.” The article's planar case length/top-to-bottom dimension is stored as the lug-to-lug equivalent.
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