Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph 5990 40.5mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 40.5 mm case suggests

Patek Philippe Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph 5990 40.5mm measures 44.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 40.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.10 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 75% of the 7,421 watches in this database and shorter than 71% of the 79 Patek Philippe 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 44.5 mm (1.75 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 12.53 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 56% of the watches with a listed thickness.