Collection: Large Men's Watches

Large men’s watches, 44 mm and up

A large watch is easy to read at a glance and has room on the dial for a chronograph, a dive bezel or a digital display. Every watch on this page is 44 mm or more across, from Citizen, Bulova and Caravelle. Our case size guide suggests 42 mm and up for a wrist over about 19 cm (7.5 in), so these suit a larger wrist most naturally.

Size isn’t only diameter

Two watches of the same width can wear very differently, because thickness and lug-to-lug length decide how a big watch sits. The Bulova Maquina 98A224 is 46 mm across but only 8.45 mm thick, and the Bulova Icon 98D149 is 46.5 mm and 8.6 mm thick, so both sit closer to the wrist than their size suggests. Caravelle’s Sport 45B150 keeps a 44 mm chronograph to 9 mm. Bulova’s Series X chronographs, at 44.5 to 45 mm and over 17 mm thick, are the other extreme. Our case size guide shows how to measure your wrist and check lug-to-lug length before you choose.

Weight

Size usually brings weight, and that’s where titanium helps. Citizen gives its Super Titanium as about 40% lighter than stainless steel, so the 46 mm Promaster Dive Automatic NB6005-05L, the 44 mm Super Titanium Armor and the 45 mm Skyhawk A-T JY8108-53E carry their size lightly. A rubber or fabric strap also takes weight off compared with a steel bracelet. There are more on our titanium watches page.

What’s here

• Dive watches: Citizen’s Promaster Diver and Professional Diver at 44 to 45 mm, the Promaster Dive Automatics at 44 and 46 mm, and Bulova’s Marine Star Series A, a 44 mm automatic rated 200 m. See also our men’s dive watches.
• Pilot’s watches: the Promaster Skyhawk A-T at 45 to 46 mm and the Promaster Sky at 46 mm, both with atomic timekeeping and a perpetual calendar.
• Chronographs: Citizen’s Brycen at 44 to 44.8 mm and Avion at 45 mm, Bulova’s Wilton at 46.5 mm and Marine Star Series B, the 45 mm Lunar Pilot 96B251, based on the Bulova chronograph worn on the moon in 1971, and Bulova’s Precisionist chronographs, which time to a thousandth of a second.
• Dress and calendar: the 46 mm Maquina skeleton automatics and the 44 mm Citizen Calendrier BU0057, an Eco-Drive with month, day, date and moon phase.
• Star Wars: a run of Citizen Star Wars Eco-Drive models at 44 to 45 mm, including the Boba Fett AW1418-06W on a fabric strap, water resistant to 200 m.

Questions

Is 44 mm too big for me? Measure your wrist first. Over about 19 cm, 44 mm and up usually looks in proportion; below that, look at the thinner models here and check the lug-to-lug length. A leather strap also makes a large case look a little more compact than a steel bracelet does.

Do bigger watches have more water resistance? Not automatically. Ratings here run from 30 m on the Bulova Curv and Wilton to 300 m on the Bulova Icon, so check each watch’s specs.