Calatrava Date, Sweep Seconds 40mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 40 mm case suggests

Patek Philippe Calatrava Date, Sweep Seconds 40mm measures 48.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 40 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 70% of the 7,421 watches in this database and longer than 70% of the 79 Patek Philippe watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 54 mm (2.13 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 65 mm (2.56 in) it starts to look compact. Below 48.5 mm (1.91 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.