How to Choose the Right Size Watch for Your Wrist (ft. Farfetch & Nomos)

How do you choose the right size watch for your wrist? It's easy! Watch this video to find out how to determine your wrist size and pick the perfect watch.

Big thanks to Farfetch for sponsoring this video and for loaning us the Nomos Glashutte watches to use as examples.

#watches #nomos #watchsize

💥 Shop the Video

🎬 Related Videos

🧍🏻 My Sizes

I'm 5'6" with shoes on and about 123 lbs after dinner. I have a 34" chest; I usually wear XS tops and 28x28 pants (sometimes hemmed to 27").

📸 My Gear

🛠️ Resources

👕 Style Guides

👉 Find Me On

———
Contains affiliate links // Stay stylish!

[aniliname]

It's so frustrating to find a "normal" sized watch as a woman these days. Women's watches are typically ridiculously tiny and men's watches just get bigger and bigger. I find myself going to vintage men's watches for more medium sizes. I mean, some of us aren't trying to prove how itty bitty or how super macho we are with the size of our watch. We just want a nice watch that fits well!

[franknoneli]

Do you even realise the perfect timing of this upload!!! I'm buying a watch day after tomo 👏

[i_kill_for_zardoz]

My wrist is 7.5 and my build is very large/muscular and a chunky watch with a 47mm case looks perfect on me. I think your overall build also impacts how a watch looks, not just wrist size. The bulkier you are, the bulkier the watch you can get away with.

[Tdr-jvnc]

I have a 6.5 wrist and 41mm seems to fit me very well 42mm is my absolute max

[Occupant]

I'm a big fan of Nomos. Been waiting for this one!

[sierrastriker]

Great vid Brock, I really appreciate how you emphasized lug to lug measurements as that is really what determines suitability more than people realize even though that damn measurement is rarely if ever mentioned on watch specs. One thing to add: shape of the lugs matters too. I can get away with longer lugs when they curve down versus go straight out and with my 6" wrist that is what allows me to sometimes get away with a 38-39mm versus a 35-37mm. Props for highlighting this all with some sweet Nomos selections though :)

[gediminaskontrimas]

Contemporary watches are way too big. I hate that.

[Dom__x]

My wrist is roughly 6.7 so it's on the smaller side. 41, 5 mm Mako looks perfect. HOWEVER the biggest problem having smaller wrist is finding good fitting leather strap. Sometimes I even need additional holes and usually the strap end is way too long (the end gets loose and flappy) so I end up putting the strap in a drawer.
Finding nice looking strap (especially online) is much more challenging than choosing a case size. My only solution is bracelet, nato straps or adjustable (with scissors lol) rubber straps.
Maybe I haven't had a quality leather strap where that little leather ring (to fixate the strap) is very sturdy and can hold the strap in place.

[JamesK]

I have 7 1/4" wrists and don't like 42mm watches on me. 38 to 41mm for me, and honestly, I prefer 36mm over 42mm if I had to make a choice between the 2.

[wungabunga]

I have a 7.5 inch wrist and my latest acquisition is 31mm. A dress watch, it looks fine. Men used to wear tiny watches exclusively!

[periscope]

Excellent advice. My wrist size is 6.5", with a sweet spot of 39mm to 41mm for watches. Funnily enough, our eye has been conditioned to want bigger watches. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 36mm is now considered to be a genderless timepiece.

[kongmw]

another somewhat often overlooked aspect of how big the watches look visually irl is the design of the dial/crystal/presence of bezel (or the lack thereof). watches with bauhaus design like nomos tend to wear larger than the case diameters would indicate.

[jaytan]

Thanks for your very useful guidelines. Although I am 5' 10" and not skinny, my wrist is only 6" diameter. So I am partial to 34mm watches. 41mm would look like a wall clock on me.

[djimanufacture]

My wrist is 6, 5 "
My dream watch is a 38mm $1000 seiko.
Because I can't afford it, I keep wear my 10 years 38mm $100 casio.

[leonidesperez]

Thanks 👍🏼 I am learning a lot about watches. Awesome videos keep them coming

[JusttheWatch]

Really helpful video. I have a 7.5 inch wrist. For me 42mm is the sweet spot for divers and sports watches, 40mm for dressier prices.

[tantu]

Watches size getting bigger for today trend, but you will never go wrong if selected a sport watch (diver style with rotary bezel, chronograph watches, or big dial pilot with busy ruler) from 41 to 43 mm diameter. Dress watches and field watches from 38mm to 40mm, they were designed to match most of adult wrist size over 6'5" or under. 😀

[SunsetSheen]

The large watch trend can’t die soon enough.

[deshik]

This is hands down the best video about wrist size and watches

[walkerb]

Glad to see the era of oversized watches phasing out. I’ve been wearing a 38.5mm JLC Geophysic limited edition for years now and find it to be perfect in every way. Understated, indiscreet, elegant...a perfect gentleman’s timepiece. It does everything I need and doesn’t scream “hey, look at me!l