Back-Wind Oval 35.4mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 35.4 mm case suggests

Patek Philippe Back-Wind Oval 35.4mm measures 40.3 mm lug-to-lug on a 35.4 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.14 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 92% of the 7,413 watches in this database and shorter than 82% of the 79 Patek Philippe watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 45 mm (1.77 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 54 mm (2.13 in) it starts to look compact. Below 40.3 mm (1.59 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.