Nivada Grenchen Tropical Chronomaster 38mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 38 mm case suggests

Nivada Grenchen Tropical Chronomaster 38mm measures 46.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 38 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.22 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 56% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 13% of the 30 Nivada Grenchen watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 52 mm (2.05 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 62 mm (2.44 in) it starts to look compact. Below 46.5 mm (1.83 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 13.75 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 78% of the watches with a listed thickness.