Often wear a watch for a long time there may be such a confusion: why the same size table, some will be particularly large, some are very small?
Even some small diameter of the table, wear more than the size of the table?
This phenomenon has to do with a statistic that many experts won’t tell you.
First, a question: What data do you focus on when looking at the parameters of a watch?
General table friends will say: the diameter and thickness of the case, case material, depth, movement model and so on.
But there’s one more thing a real old gun pays attention to: ears.
Specifically, the distance from the upper ear to the lower ear.
This number may not seem like much, and few watches will ever label it, but it is crucial to the hands-on effect and experience.
For example, recently fried hot new water ghost, surface diameter than the old water ghost is 1 mm larger.
But because the upper and lower ear distance and the old ghost, so wear up, equal to the same size.
It is easy to see that the distance between the upper and lower ears is as important as the diameter.
Short ears make the watch look smaller.
Take SUB 300 as an example, this is a professional diving table, the profile resembles a flying saucer, the diameter of 42mm.
For comparison, the surface diameter of the Rolex Water Ghost is 40mm or 41mm.
Judging from its diameter, this SUB 300 is a large watch.
But the distance between its upper and lower ears is only 45mm, compared to about 48mm for the water ghost.
The hour is 3mm smaller than the water ghost.
In this way, in the actual wearing effect, it is not big at all.
Both the rugged temperament of the diving table, and has close to the comfort of the formal table.
This is not apparent to those who look only at the diameters but not at the ears.
Anything shorter than a short epigram is a no-epigram.
One example is Henri Moosch’s Streamliner Return chronograph, which at 42mm in diameter looks like a large watch too, but has no ears.
No lugs means that the distance between the upper and lower lugs is equal to the diameter, which is 42mm.
For the water ghost, the distance between the upper and lower ears of the water ghost is 48mm, which is a huge difference of 6mm.
So, even with a diameter of 42mm, this Henry is still not too big, thanks to its earless design.
One of the classic examples of long ears is.
In the impression of most friends, Nomos is a delicate brand.
But it’s actually bigger than you think.
Because Nomos many styles of watchear, are very long.
The Ahoi Atlantik 552 from Nomos, for example, has a nominal diameter of only 40mm and a whopping 50mm distance between the upper and lower ears.
Gentle shell and disk, but has a very bold wingspan.
This also makes a lot of wrist thinner table friends, when using it found that it is not so easy to control.
However, many watch media seem to ignore this data, often only write the diameter of a particular watch and the distance between the ears, but not the distance between the upper and lower ears.
Therefore, when selecting a watch, it is recommended that you observe the length of the watch ear by yourself. The design of long watch ear, short standard ear, and no watch ear will affect the effect of the hand.
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