Which Size of Watch is Suitable for You?
Like most decorations and luxury goods, the trend of watches' appearance and size is always changing. In the past, the thin model was popular, in recent years, the watches in large size are fashion and the size of ladies watches is more than 30mm in diameter, mens watches in 40mm diameter are also very common. The watch that is over 40mm is oversized. The largest watch I have seen is 48mm, which looks like a piece of pocket watch.
The watch is basically divided into three categories according to their size: mens watches, ladies watches and watches for boys. The watch has decoration function, wearing a large watch has an intuitive, rugged, stylish and avant-garde effect, very suitable for young people. Especially those fashion watches, they are made very exaggerated. Personally, I like the watches in large diameter, for the movement, the timing performance of watch with large movement is much better than that of the smaller one.
However, everything has two sides. Blindly chasing the trend, you will feel uncomfortable if you wear a large watch on wrist for a long period.
Here are some disadvantages of wearing oversized watches:
(1) The watch must be heavy because of its large size. Wearing such a watch gives the wrist much burden, even raising hands will feel a little laborious. One 44mm watch with metal bracelet weighs almost 150 grams.
(2) The crown of large watch is relatively extrude and large. Wearing it will make you often feel uncomfortable on the back of the hand.
(3) The anti-shock performance is poor. Once the watch suffers the shock, the movement is easy to break.
(4) Not all large watches use large movements. It is common that a small movement are changed into a large one through adding extra functions, such as moon phase, 12/24 hours, power reserve display and chronograph, which can be called that a small horse drives a cart, increased the transmission load and it is easy to break. The movements of some quartz fashion watches in large diameter are quite small.
(5) It is easy to knock against. Because external parts are rather special, once being damaged, it is difficult to find the accessories.
(7) Some special arched watches have poor water resistance and sealed performance, so the water will easily get into these watches.
(8) The large watches have more selling points, so their price is unreasonable.
The size of the watch you want to choose should be considered according to your age, gender, body, wrist thickness, the nature of work and habits, especially the older people are not suitable to wear oversized watches. In general, mens watches are about in 33-40mm, ladies watches are in 23-30mm.