My thickest watch is my G-shock GPR-B1000-1 GPS Navigation watch, at 19.9mm thick. It's okay though as it's a hiking/outdoor watch.

"Too thick" would be the Omega Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional at what - 28mm??

Everything else is fair game. ;-)

 

The Rangebeast that T4P refers to is just that, a beast of a watch. My collection maxes out at 22mm thick. A watch is only too thick if you think it is.

 

Honestly I wouldn't go thicker than 13mm. I have an Oris that's just slightly below that. I just hate the feeling of a tall watch banging into stuff and pulling on my wrist.

 

+1 with the exeption of a Gshock

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You won't, however get one of these under your shirtsleeve.

Says who? I regularly wear my 15.1mm tall Jazzmaster auto chrono under the shirt cuff.

When the thickness is due to a domed crystal, it usually slides under the cuff pretty well. Thick straps and high, edgy case flanks are the real problem. See the illustration below, that watch could just as well be 12mm tall in the middle without making any difference.

Anyways, my thickest watch is 17.2mm and it's quite heavy (190g), which is far more relevant for wearing comfort than thickness in the middle.

 

You need to visit one of the Bronze watch forums here!!

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Oddly even thickness is a dimension that seems subjective depending on how a watch wears. My precista PRS18A is only 12.5 mm but seems to stand up tall on the wrist. (Not my photo).

Personally I draw the line at 15mm, no matter how the watch might wear.

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Oddly even thickness is a dimension that seems subjective depending on how a watch wears. My precista PRS18A is only 12.5 mm but seems to stand up tall on the wrist.

No surprise at all. That's what I meant with an edgy, high case flank in my post above. My Obris Morgan Explorer had the same 12.5mm thickness and shape and also felt thicker than a 14mm watch with rounded flanks and a domed crystal.

 

I have a panerai with rotating bezel and domed caseback with around 18-19mm thickness and my SBDX011 is also around 18mm thick (or even more...)

 

I have 8.25" + wrists so lots of meat to bury the thing in - several dive watches I wear are 17-18mm
but that's proud enough.

 

Well, there are really three considerations at play here: actual thickness, perceived thickness, and weight.

- Actual thickness is obvious: the thicker the watch, the more difficult to cover it with a cuff, the more likely you are to bang it into things.

- Perceived thickness is how thick it looks on the wrist. For example, the Rolex Submariner is 12.5mm thick, but about 2mm of that is the protruding caseback that isn't really seen because it nestles into your wrist. The problem here is one of perception: how "slab-sided" does your watch look?

- Finally, there's weight. The thicker the watch, the heavier it is - unless it's plastic (think G-Shock) or titanium - and the more uncomfortable it will be as the day wears on.

So in a true "tale of two watches," consider the Bremont and the Blancpain in my sig line. The former is 17.5mm tall, the latter is 14.8mm. Both thick watches. But the Bremont is in titanium, so it weighs considerably less than the Blancpain. And Bremont uses a design they call their "Trip Tick" case, which breaks the case into three contrasting parts, which helps prevent the case from looking slab-sided.

Or maybe consider the Omega Grey Side, which is 16.5mm thick, but A) is made out of ceramic thus mitigating weight, and B) doesn't look as thick as its true thickness, because about 3.5-4mm of the thickness comes from the "sapphire sandwich."

So normally, I'd say no more than 15mm thick, especially on steel bracelet, because you're going to have weight issues. But if you can mitigate the weight and perceived thickness, you can conceivably go thicker.

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I try to keep most of mine to 14mm or less in terms of thickness.

That way it does not look like I am wearing a hockey puck.....

 

I had to look that up... a standard hockey puck is one inch or 25.4 mm tall

 

My Grand Seiko Hi-beat GMT is 13.9mm thick, and it's sits almost a bit too high (but the other design facets make up for it). I prefer my watches to be 12mm and under.


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My Grand Seiko Hi-beat GMT is 13.9mm thick, and it's sits almost a bit too high (but the other design facets make up for it). I prefer my watches to be 12mm and under.

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One of my tallest watches is also a Grand Seiko GMT; mine is 14.1mm thick. Only my Ball Skindiver is higher at a thickness of 14.3mm. I feel both are too tall because they don't fit under some of my coat and shirt cuffs.

Ideally I'd prefer my watches to be under 12mm. I have two dive watches that are ~9mm (still 200M WR) and they're wonderful.

 

I thought I had some thick watches until I got a Panerai Marina with the big crown guard - that thing re-defines “thick”.


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Swiss Military 20,000 feet...





Kurt

 

28mm.

28mm is too thick...

 

28mm.

28mm is too thick...

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Cons:
Very heavy
Very thick
Compromised readability
Uncomfortable
Questionable Aesthetics
Expensive

Pros:
Pointless depth rating

 

For me, anything over about 12mm is too thick. That's why I love the 3239 Ingenieur at about 10mm:

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My Stowa Prodiver is about 16mm and that’s fine.

However, over 10mm on a dressier piece is too thick.

 

11mm for me, assuming the case back isn't pushing the watch out from my wrist. The pic in the OP looks like the watch is hovering like a land speeder. Criss Angel signature model.

 

11mm for me, assuming the case back isn't pushing the watch out from my wrist. The pic in the OP looks like the watch is hovering like a land speeder. Criss Angel signature model.

Even though the Vostoks are 15mm they actually wear much thinner and the thickness is misleading on the wrist. If they were to use a "normal" crystal and a "normal" caseback they would only really be in the neighbourhood of 8-9mm.

 

I had a watch that was 15mm (44 diameter) and I had to let it go because it was not comfortable at all. Too heavy and too top heavy. Also the thickness was all in the case. I have another one at 14.5 but that is 2.5 of a domed box crystal and so it does not feel thick to me and it wears fine. Since that experience I tend to stay away with watches that are over 15mm. The thinner the better for me.

 

On military, pilot and divers , I will go to 16mm; on select G-Shocks and pro-Treks to 18mm.

 

Specs mean almost nothing. My SBDC061 is 13mm (which is already fairly thin) but still looks and feels even thinner due to the sculpted case.

 

I've got several Vostoks which due to the design are quite tall. A 3mm thick, highly domed crystal and a caseback engineered to sit proud of the case means these watches sit at 15mm. Add a 1.2mm NATO and you're looking at almost 18mm! Luckily on me the caseback sinks into my wrist, somewhat lowering the caseback's effect and the crystal being clear visually doesn't make the watch look tall.

You won't, however get one of these under your shirtsleeve.

Indeed, this is correct.

I swapped a display back onto a Vostok 710 Scuba Dude, which easily took it up to 17mm ...

No chance of fitting under a normal cuff ... but I loved it anyway! 17mm thick = more watch to love!

 

Thickness needs to be in proportion to case width and L2L length.

Tall and thin looks out to me, eg the Tudor black bay, far too tall for the other case dimensions, fixed by the 58.

 

I also am a fan of the Vostok's, great watch for the coin. I would say my tallest watch I hated the height of was my Tudor Monte Carlo chrono. I could not deal with the fact it was like I was wearing a Tolstoy novel on my wrist.

 

Pretty sure the now discontinued Sinn U200 was proportionate to an actual hockey puck, or possibly Abe Lincoln's hat.

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Depends a lot on mid-case thickness. If the case back and crystal take up height and the mid-case is thin, it can look and wear much thinner. The BB is around 13mm thick, but wears like brick because the mid-case is a huge slab.