Calatrava Volutes And Arabesques 38mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 38 mm case suggests

Patek Philippe Calatrava Volutes And Arabesques 38mm measures 46 mm lug-to-lug on a 38 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 59% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 59% of the 79 Patek Philippe 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 mm (1.81 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.