Is Rolex Datejust 36 too small for a 7.5 inch wrist (19cm)

[gdubdj]

I am starting to.love the look of the 36!

[xrole]

Originally Posted by gdubdj

I am starting to.love the look of the 36!

For the love of the flying spaghetti monster please get your watch bracelet properly sized because it looks silly hanging off your wrist like that.

[gdubdj]

Originally Posted by xrole

For the love of the flying spaghetti monster please get your watch bracelet properly sized because it looks silly hanging off your wrist like that.

Bracelet service is in the works bud. Had this watch back less than a week…. But thanks.

[bibbi]

Can’t imagine a 36mm watch on a wrist larger than 17cm. Would look like borrowed from a child. Just like examples shown above look.

But it’s just my pov (16cm wrist).

bibbi

[DLRIDES]

Originally Posted by bibbi

Can’t imagine a 36mm watch on a wrist larger than 17cm. Would look like borrowed from a child. Just like examples shown above look.

But it’s just my pov (16cm wrist).

bibbi

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[KatGirl]

Originally Posted by bibbi

Can’t imagine a 36mm watch on a wrist larger than 17cm. Would look like borrowed from a child. Just like examples shown above look.

But it’s just my pov (16cm wrist).

bibbi

So not true! No bad pics here! It’s all about perspective. If you’ve been wearing dinner plates on your own wrist, then 36 mm will seem small. It’s all about what you are used to wearing, and seeing. There was a period of time, quite recently, where oversized watches were in vogue. Thankfully, fashion trends changed, and a 36 mm watch is once again becoming a normal size for an average male wrist again. Guys who modeled your 36’s, for this thread, you all look great!

Kat


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[bibbi]

Originally Posted by KatGirl

So not true! No bad pics here! It’s all about perspective. If you’ve been wearing dinner plates on your own wrist, then 36 mm will seem small. It’s all about what you are used to wearing, and seeing. There was a period of time, quite recently, where oversized watches were in vogue. Thankfully, fashion trends changed, and a 36 mm watch is once again becoming a normal size for an average male wrist again. Guys who modeled your 36’s, for this thread, you all look great!

Kat


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We will gracefully reserve our differing standpoints. As I underlined, this is my point of view, not the ultimate truth, for sure.

I’m fully aware of the rightfully gone „dinner plates” fashion trend. I would say that nowadays the trend is more or less pretty neutral.

For my 16cm wirst, in my opinion, a 39mm diver, maybe a 40mm one, if properly deisgned, is a max I can pull up (smaller diameters in the case of non-tool watches). The bigger watches will look completely outplaced on my wrist. On the other end, there are days when (depending on my mood, my perspective) a 36mm OP seems to look smallish on me. But there exist people who would happily wear a 43-44mm watch on a 16cm wrist. Strange for me, not for them.

On the other hand I’m aware of all Stallones of this world with huge wrists compared to mine, wearing 36mm or maybe even 34mm watches. Do they break any rules? No. But in my humble opinion these watches look on their wrists similarly strange (comical) as a 44mm watch would look on my wrist.

Anyway, let’s hope for the reintroduction of a white dial to the 36mm OP in less than 2-weeks’ time.


bibbi

[Nairn1980]

Originally Posted by thatswhatshesaid

I have a 7.5" wrist and my wife's 36mm DJ looks tiny on me.

The 41mm DJ is actually only a bit over 39mm and will fit you much better.

Agree with this

[rmlovett1]

For those folks who judge size based on pics posted here on TRF…. I’d caution you. These up close pics of a 36mm watch on a 7+ inch wrist, hanging down by the hand, will look disproportionately large vs looking at it 3 or 4 ft away in a mirror.

Certainly a 42mm SKD is too big on a 6 3/4 inch wrist …especially if you look at this pic..

[rmlovett1]

Then a few feet away…. There’s a lot more that goes into Watch size versus wrist size… Body type, flatness of wrist, shape of your forearm, etc.…



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[Krash]

Here’s a picture of a 41 on 7.5” wrists from about 5 feet away. If I bought a 36 , I’d have some serious buyers remorse right now.




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[rmlovett1]

Originally Posted by Krash

Here’s a picture of a 41 on 7.5” wrists from about 5 feet away. If I bought a 36 , I’d have some serious buyers remorse right now.

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Exactly my point…

[Jack T]

I’ve had both, the DJ41 is actually a bit less than 41mm, and it looks fine on my 7.25” wrist, but no one ever refers to the 41 as a classic.

But…it’s not just about size, it’s about proportions, and the 36mm DJ has ideal proportions.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Jack T

I’ve had both, the DJ41 is actually a bit less than 41mm, and it looks fine on my 7.25” wrist, but no one ever refers to the 41 as a classic.

But…it’s not just about size, it’s about proportions, and the 36mm DJ has ideal proportions.

Nobody refers the DJ41 as a classic because it’s relatively new. They didn’t make it back in 1945 when the DJ was released.


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[hartsy]

I would go for the 41. I am just a hair under 7in wrist and have a bigger more athletic build and personally found the 36 to be a little too small for my liking and opted for the 40 (224270) explorer

[Jack T]

Originally Posted by Krash

Nobody refers the DJ41 as a classic because it’s relatively new. They didn’t make it back in 1945 when the DJ was released.


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I agree, but Rolex moved off the 36mm only in response to the big watch fad of 10-12 years ago. First came the DJ II, a watch that was widely criticized for its clumsy proportions. Then came the DJ 41, much improved over the DJ II, but still a nod to the modern, larger case trend, and derivative in design.