Horological Machine HM8 Only Watch 49mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 49 mm case suggests

MB&F Horological Machine HM8 Only Watch 49mm measures 51.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 49 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.05 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 92% of the 7,421 watches in this database and longer than 48% of the 31 MB&F watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 58 mm (2.28 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 69 mm (2.72 in) it starts to look compact. Below 51.5 mm (2.03 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.