Tim, your How-To Fit Your Watch guide is another superb resource-so valuable that I would have gladly paid for it. Your expertise and insights are truly top-notch!
Thanks! I wanted it to be something useful regardless of who you are or what you're shopping. These are a few helpful tricks I've gathered in my time. Best, Tim
Tim! This is great, I appreciate that you're covering topics that seem to be glossed over so often in the watch community. It's nice to know the science behind fit, because it has sounded very subjective to me in how people talk about it. Thanks for the video!
Thanks James. It's tough to isolate constants in a process that's so variable and subjective. So I came up with a few rules-of-thumb that feel universal and useful for all types of wrist and watch. Best, Tim
Great video. I took a look at my collection and the watches that had the best balanced look on my wrist, fit your 5mm offset suggestion. Slightly larger worked for wrist presence style watches like divers, chronos, pilot and slightly smaller worked for dress. But, the best balanced look was 5mm offset. Will use your guideline in the future for narrowing down selections. Thanks.
There's also the lug profile to consider. Are the lugs more flat in profile or do they dramatically arch down and hug the wrist better? Thanks for this comprehensive guide Tim!
Yes! An enthusiast needs a caliper & tailor's tape. You can also guess a wrist size like this: grab around your own wrist with the opposite hand, noting the position of thumbnail and middle finger nail. Mine exactly overlap around my 6.75" wrist. Fingertips touching? More like 7.25". And so on. When I give away one of my 'fun' watches to a friend I do this to size the bracelet for them and it works out great.
Great video Tim! I used just go by “the feeling”. Now I know the methodology. Just wondering… the fit here is about not going too large. How about too small?
When using the calipers to measure the breadth of you wrist, do you just have them barely touching the skin, compress the skin all the way, or somewhere in between? I get a variance of about 5mm between the two extremes.
I believe Tim's wrist is still 16cm if he had measured it 'wrist facing up' side (for lack of a better term). He measured his wrist facing down, which is always larger.
Useful video from Tim on how to select the right watch size for your wrist. I too made a series of videos on case vs wrist size: th-cam.com/play/PLSbX32z8mMu1i1QFivYUCvK9qwUhuKULC.html A couple of things to add: 1. If you have a slimmer wrist, I suggest you don’t try to be “macho” and wear watches too big for your wrist. If the lugs stick out past your wrist, it’s too big. I still see way too many guys wearing AP offshores and such with such thin wrists that it looks cartoonish. 2. If you have bigger wrists, you can wear a range of sizes. Don’t think that every watch must be the same size. Also realize that if you have been conditioned to wear bigger watches, you will think anything smaller is “too small” for you. This is not necessarily the case (😊). I wear 36 mm and I also wear 44 mm and I enjoy the variety and the different style of each watch. 3. The key to a watch wearing well is the proportions and ratios of dial size to case size to lug-to-lug to even lug width rag and dial color. It’s not a straight forward oh this xx size is good or bad. 4. You don’t need a measuring tape or calipers. a) cut a strip of A-4 paper. Measure and mark it when measuring your wrist. Then use a ruler to measure the marks on the paper. b) to measure the lug to lug and such of a watch, put the watch on a piece of paper and trace the outline. Then use a ruler to measure the outline as needed. Hope this helps everyone. I run the GP Laureato Fanclub group on FB. 🤝
Thanks for doing this. The 2.5 mm alone is very helpful. By the way, the AP looked fine on your wrist imo. The integrated bracelet masks the real edge.
Great video Tim, an important point you missed though is that your wrist size is actually narrower when it is facing you, whilst it is wider when it is facing away from you. Hence, why Tim's measurement here was 17cm as his wrist was facing away from him. Had he measured his wrist when it is facing him, I believe it would be 16cm.
and material as light weight watches like titanium will wear smaller because they are lighter so they have less presence.. whereas heavier precious metal watches like gold and platinum can feel to have more presence.
There's a lot more to being a watch enthusiast than monitoring fluctuating secondary market watch prices. I appreciate watch TH-cam channels and content creators that cater to watch enthusiasts looking for content that isn't focused on watch traders
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Tim, your How-To Fit Your Watch guide is another superb resource-so valuable that I would have gladly paid for it. Your expertise and insights are truly top-notch!
Thanks! I wanted it to be something useful regardless of who you are or what you're shopping. These are a few helpful tricks I've gathered in my time.
Best,
Tim
Tim! This is great, I appreciate that you're covering topics that seem to be glossed over so often in the watch community. It's nice to know the science behind fit, because it has sounded very subjective to me in how people talk about it. Thanks for the video!
Thanks James. It's tough to isolate constants in a process that's so variable and subjective. So I came up with a few rules-of-thumb that feel universal and useful for all types of wrist and watch.
Best,
Tim
Fit comes first-just like bicycles! Very helpful video. Thanks!
Great video. I took a look at my collection and the watches that had the best balanced look on my wrist, fit your 5mm offset suggestion. Slightly larger worked for wrist presence style watches like divers, chronos, pilot and slightly smaller worked for dress. But, the best balanced look was 5mm offset.
Will use your guideline in the future for narrowing down selections. Thanks.
There's also the lug profile to consider. Are the lugs more flat in profile or do they dramatically arch down and hug the wrist better? Thanks for this comprehensive guide Tim!
Yes! An enthusiast needs a caliper & tailor's tape. You can also guess a wrist size like this: grab around your own wrist with the opposite hand, noting the position of thumbnail and middle finger nail. Mine exactly overlap around my 6.75" wrist. Fingertips touching? More like 7.25". And so on. When I give away one of my 'fun' watches to a friend I do this to size the bracelet for them and it works out great.
thanks Tim super helpful
I also have a 17cm wrist (6.7 in). Will I have an issue sizing a 5 digit reference Rolex? Specifically the 14050m.
Great video Tim!
I used just go by “the feeling”. Now I know the methodology.
Just wondering… the fit here is about not going too large.
How about too small?
When using the calipers to measure the breadth of you wrist, do you just have them barely touching the skin, compress the skin all the way, or somewhere in between? I get a variance of about 5mm between the two extremes.
Nicely done.
Mate, what happened to your 16cm wrist?
I believe Tim's wrist is still 16cm if he had measured it 'wrist facing up' side (for lack of a better term). He measured his wrist facing down, which is always larger.
Probably just higher blood pressure after my morning workouts. That, and I had it cranked down tighter when I measured 16cm.
Best,
Tim
Useful video from Tim on how to select the right watch size for your wrist.
I too made a series of videos on case vs wrist size:
th-cam.com/play/PLSbX32z8mMu1i1QFivYUCvK9qwUhuKULC.html
A couple of things to add:
1. If you have a slimmer wrist, I suggest you don’t try to be “macho” and wear watches too big for your wrist. If the lugs stick out past your wrist, it’s too big. I still see way too many guys wearing AP offshores and such with such thin wrists that it looks cartoonish.
2. If you have bigger wrists, you can wear a range of sizes. Don’t think that every watch must be the same size. Also realize that if you have been conditioned to wear bigger watches, you will think anything smaller is “too small” for you. This is not necessarily the case (😊). I wear 36 mm and I also wear 44 mm and I enjoy the variety and the different style of each watch.
3. The key to a watch wearing well is the proportions and ratios of dial size to case size to lug-to-lug to even lug width rag and dial color. It’s not a straight forward oh this xx size is good or bad.
4. You don’t need a measuring tape or calipers.
a) cut a strip of A-4 paper. Measure and mark it when measuring your wrist. Then use a ruler to measure the marks on the paper.
b) to measure the lug to lug and such of a watch, put the watch on a piece of paper and trace the outline. Then use a ruler to measure the outline as needed.
Hope this helps everyone.
I run the GP Laureato Fanclub group on FB.
🤝
17cm wrist??! And here was, my whole life of watching your reviews, thinking one Mosso unit was 16cm...
I guess I've been lifting. I'm really buff now
Best,
Tim
@@the1916companywatchreviews own those gains, Tim -- you still refers to it as 16cm at 7:47
Brilliant!
Thank you, Tim.
Thank you Tim
That VC is super dreamy ❤. Love Tim’s videos!
This is the most valuable advice for a newcomer to watches. It can help you avoid expensive mistakes.
Excellent video. I’m an avid watch collector but still learned useful tips. Thank you!
Thanks for doing this. The 2.5 mm alone is very helpful. By the way, the AP looked fine on your wrist imo. The integrated bracelet masks the real edge.
Great video Tim, an important point you missed though is that your wrist size is actually narrower when it is facing you, whilst it is wider when it is facing away from you. Hence, why Tim's measurement here was 17cm as his wrist was facing away from him. Had he measured his wrist when it is facing him, I believe it would be 16cm.
While this is true, it's best to plan for the worst-case scenario - especially with some kind of cuttable strap.
Best,
Tim
and material as light weight watches like titanium will wear smaller because they are lighter so they have less presence.. whereas heavier precious metal watches like gold and platinum can feel to have more presence.
8:03
'If the watch doesn't fit, you must acquit.'...or something like that...
I have a 19.5cm oval wrist and I can easily fit a 44mm diameter/54mm lug to lug piece. 55mm lug to lug is the absolute furthest I’d ever go.
Hey tim you always mention on your reviews that your wrist is 16 cm? But you just measured 17 cm now?
Inflation strikes again
1916 company sounds like nothing, absolutely shit name, WATCHBOX was epic
You couldn't pick more modest watches? 🤦
I’m married, my wrist has become bigger and stronger.
Now that’s funny.
The Watch market is dead guy is right. Watch TH-cam really has nothing left to talk about and is desperate for making content.
There's a lot more to being a watch enthusiast than monitoring fluctuating secondary market watch prices. I appreciate watch TH-cam channels and content creators that cater to watch enthusiasts looking for content that isn't focused on watch traders