Pet peeve: clasp blades that are longer than lug-to-lug

I’m a slender-wristed fella’ (6.25″/ 160mm), and over the years as I’ve fallen down the watch enthusiast rabbit hole, one of the things that I find has bothered me or delighted me the most with some of my watches is also something that I don’t see talked about much: clasp blade length of bracelets.

The BB58 is a great negative example of this. It has a lug-to-lug that’s right at the upper bound of wearability for me (~47mm), yet its bracelet’s blade when closed is longer than that, making…

Pet peeve: clasp blades that are longer than lug-to-lug

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