In Praise of 'Mid-size' modern watches

This is the eternal debate. My wrist is 8" and I love 'em big

I tried this one on yesterday its huge, but it has a 87DB alarm. Cool watch but Not for me.

This is an example of ridiculously tall. Very high ratio of case materials to movement happening here 😀

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Certainly not "mid size" 😀

I tried this one on yesterday its huge, but it has a 87DB alarm. Cool watch but Not for me.

This is an example of ridiculously tall. Very high ratio of case materials to movement happening here 😀

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Having seen so many triple date speedmasters on here i will include mine

Smpc 36.25 version:

Mid size i think is just a modern marketing term - the only thing i think that has changed in recent times is dress watches have gone up in size.

Dress was worn by the majority and was usually 36mm or smaller - this has now flipped and tool is the majority.

However tool watches back then, such as the manual wound chronograph featured earlier in this thread were around 35-37mm

Because tool watches are now so popular, they typically start at 40mm and go up to 48mm - for good reason - pilots can't read a small dial in a shaking plane and divers need to see clearly their timings.

So dress watches have been pushed up the sizing chart towards 37-39mm, some tool watches where complications allow have been issued in mid size model as there's a big unisex thing going on right now.

So ultimately not much has really changed apart from marketing. 39mm - 40mm is still classic tool watch size (albeit, slightly chunkier lugs) and 36-37mm is classic dress watch but with more variants falling between the two sizes.

36-38mm is a great size.


...........so is 39-42mm