Timex World Time 1972 Reissue 39mm

How it wears

Wears smaller than its 39 mm case suggests

Timex World Time 1972 Reissue 39mm measures 41.5 mm lug-to-lug on a 39 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.06 against a database median of 1.18. That span is shorter than 89% of the 8,093 watches in this database and shorter than 87% of the 31 Timex watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 47 mm (1.85 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 56 mm (2.20 in) it starts to look compact. Below 41.5 mm (1.63 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 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 46% of the watches with a listed thickness.