R1 USA Racing Chronograph 38mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 38 mm case suggests

Vaer R1 USA Racing Chronograph 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 43% of the 21 Vaer 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.

At 12.6 mm thick it sits within the typical range, thicker than 57% of the watches with a listed thickness.