Horological Meandering

Hi All Back to the start - wearing my Oris Big Crown again today. Rather tellingly this was the big size at 36mm when I bought it - there was a 34mm, which was still a men's watch. I keep going back to this, despite the years & all the other watches. More...  

28 years young Cheers JML

This phrase is just for fun. And for sure the return to history tour. I bought today this old watch. Why? It was calling, LiftAngle51, buy me buy me! It is a little 37mm watch, and sizes were 75 years ago a different thing. I guess wrist sizes do not chan...  

It’s a lovely watch and the size is spot on. Over the years the watch sizes were growing cancerously while our wrists remained more or less the same. For a while it kind of worked getting people to buy more watches but I guess this is slowly over. Let’s h... 

Does feel like there's a reversion to smaller sizes for the last few years. Plus size watches are great if you've got the wrist of Arnie or Stallone , most of us don't though! I wish the current set of Big Crown would revert to 36. I tried a 40mm red dial... 

Not all designs scale linearly. And a watch design that’s great at 36mm might feel drastically too large at 40mm 😊🤷🏻‍♂️