Nivada Grenchen Antarctic 38

How it wears

Wears true to its 38 mm case size

Nivada Grenchen Antarctic 38 measures 45 mm lug-to-lug on a 38 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.18 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 70% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 30% of the 30 Nivada Grenchen watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 50 mm (1.97 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 60 mm (2.36 in) it starts to look compact. Below 45 mm (1.77 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.

At 11.5 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 35% of the watches with a listed thickness.