Is it OK to wear big watch on small wrist?

My wrist is on the small side for a man, at 165 mm; close to the average woman’s wrist. Whether or not it’s officially fashionably acceptable, I like the way my Ultra fits; my wife likes it; I’ve gotten a couple other random compliments; and absolutely nobody has even remotely hinted at anything negative.And I’m a middle-aged guy who’s on an university campus four days a week, so there’s plenty of opportunity for somebody to say something.To be honest, for the most part … nobody even notices, let alone gives a damn, what you have on your wrist. If you care what other people think, chances are excellent that there’s one or more specific other people, and their opinions are the only ones that would matter. So why not ask them?But, you know what?In the run-up to pre-order day, I found myself paying attention to other people’s watches. And I noticed more than one undergraduate guy with an absolutely outrageously oversized analog watch, substantially wider than the wrist. Clearly fashion statements, clearly not to my personal taste … but they also didn’t look bad, and certainly didn’t look out of place.So, unless you have a specific dress code that applies, don’t even think about whether or not the Ultra is fashionably suitable. As the most expensive watch from the hottest watch maker on the market, it is absolutely suitable for anybody and everybody — again, excepting specific dress codes. Like … if you’re a junior salescritter for a Fortune 500 company whose suit choice is dark blue with a dark blue tie or midnight blue with a dark blue tie, there are probably at most three Rolexes you can choose from; however, your boss’s boss can wear the Ultra if he damn well pleases.As far as practicality? The Ultra doesn’t get in my way. I’d prefer if it didn’t stand so far above my wrist, but it hasn’t caught on anything and I haven’t banged it on stuff any more than I did the S4.And one last data point: proportionally, the Ultra looks almost exactly as big on my wrist as my wife’s 40mm S4 does on hers. Her watch in no way looks oversized; it looks just perfect.b&

Just the other day on the metro I saw a wrist. A wrist with an exceptional watch on it. From my angle it looked like a Nomos, or maybe it was a Junghans. There was just one problem. The watch was too big on the small, fine wrist.

Suddenly, the otherwise dapper young man turned into an awkward adolescent. Maybe he had borrowed his big brother’s watch to impress on the first day of his new internship, but the real effect was anything but.

Here are a few guidelines to avoid this type of image…often created without you knowing it. Very unfortunate.