Compax Prêt-à-porter Compax Capsule 39.5mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 39.5 mm case suggests

Universal Genève Compax Prêt-à-porter Compax Capsule 39.5mm measures 47.8 mm lug-to-lug on a 39.5 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 60% of the 7,413 watches in this database and longer than 75% of the 24 Universal Genève watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 54 mm (2.13 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 64 mm (2.52 in) it starts to look compact. Below 47.8 mm (1.88 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 12.45 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 54% of the watches with a listed thickness.