The 42mm is MASSIVE

[zacheryjensen]

People are confused because everyone is saying wrist circumference WHICH DOES NOT MATTER! It's wrist width! You can have 50mm width and 170mm circumference and 42mm will be dumb looking. But you can have 65mm width and 170mm circumference and it'll look fine.

Just so much useless info. Also, you can not possible make comparisons to yourself based on pics without measurements. It's too hard to tell. These are very subtle differences where 2mm makes a big difference.

All the more reason for people to just go try on the watch.

 

[ksuyen]

Need to look at it a bit closer. The one guy with his hand on his chin is several feet away. Here's another dude:

https://instagram.com/p/1RqmUrJLWv/?taken-by=justynk

MASSIVE.

Edit: the space black is pretty legit looking though.

The guy in that instagram is a bit smaller than an average Asian guy. I said, if you are Asian, and has smaller wrist, probably you better off with 38mm.

 

[jbachandouris]

People are confused because everyone is saying wrist circumference WHICH DOES NOT MATTER! It's wrist width! You can have 50mm width and 170mm circumference and 42mm will be dumb looking. But you can have 65mm width and 170mm circumference and it'll look fine.

Just so much useless info. Also, you can not possible make comparisons to yourself based on pics without measurements. It's too hard to tell. These are very subtle differences where 2mm makes a big difference.

All the more reason for people to just go try on the watch.

That would be fine if Apple would quit the 'limited stock' game. Odds are if we don't pre-order tonight, there will be delays.

Yeah, yeah, I know...first world problems.

 

[bmunge]

I am a pretty big guy, like muscular big 6'0 around 198lbs during summer at LOW body fat level like 8-9%. But i oddly have smaller wrists and ankles, never bothered to check. My forearms are massive compared to my wrist, i know its weird my forearms just get bigger but wrists stay the same lol. I like bigger watches so i was for sure going with the 42mm. Hell i wish they had some 45mm ones. After reading tonight i was fearing that many said even the 42mm looked small. I don't want to have something "dinky" looking so to speak.

I collect Invicta diving watches and i have some in my collection that are 50mm plus!

Wrist and ankle size is genetic in nature and doesn't really change based on how stro you get. Wrist circumfrence is a good indicator of your genetic potential for strength.

 

[papa8706]

People are confused because everyone is saying wrist circumference WHICH DOES NOT MATTER! It's wrist width! You can have 50mm width and 170mm circumference and 42mm will be dumb looking. But you can have 65mm width and 170mm circumference and it'll look fine.

Just so much useless info. Also, you can not possible make comparisons to yourself based on pics without measurements. It's too hard to tell. These are very subtle differences where 2mm makes a big difference.

All the more reason for people to just go try on the watch.

Your wrist size isn't useless information when picking a watch face. It helps when determining face size, band width/length, and the look of the watch from angles other than just straight on

 

[gsmornot]

The 6+ worked out perfectly. The bigger watch will too.

 

[puckhead193]

That's strange, 42mm looked just fine on my wrist (160mm, male.)

do you have a pic?

 

[Patriot24]

Following the Instagram feed. For some reason, people with the tiniest wrists in the world are trying on 42mm watches. Huh.

 

[twisted-pixel]

I have what I have always believed to be skinny wrists (one reason I wear a watch in the first place is to try and hide that fact)...but I wear a pebble and since the 42mm is a fraction smaller, it's definitely a 42mm for me

 

[Knowimagination]

OP obviously thinks the 42mm is too big (especially since he seems to think even the 38mm is too big) and so too prove it he searches instagram for pictures of the 42mm on tiny wrists to "prove" his point... :roll eyes:

Thanks for your insight..

 

[Pooshka]

https://instagram.com/p/1R0Wh3SXB0/?taken-by=fcracer

I guess works for some. I'm sticking with 38mm

His band is not even fastened completely. What the hell.

 

[vanimal]

Wrist and ankle size is genetic in nature and doesn't really change based on how stro you get. Wrist circumfrence is a good indicator of your genetic potential for strength.

Makes sense.

 

[gr8tfly]

One way to check is to cut out one of the 1:1 PDFs found online. Print it out and tape to a piece of foam core, leaving some paper strips for bands.

Also, the 42mm is not huge. I compared it to my Seiko chronograph and its narrower, shorter (taking the Seiko's band mount into consideration) and thinner (10.5 mm v 12.17 mm).

 

[gr8tfly]

mod please append to previous post - thanks.

 

[seong]

do you have a pic?

Sorry, the Apple Store guy didn't let me take one. My wrist width is about 50mm, so it fit almost perfectly, with little space at the top and the bottom (barely visible due to the thickness of the watch.)

 

[Patriot24]

Sorry, the Apple Store guy didn't let me take one.

It is kind of curious that they didn't allow a photo. Instagram is beaming right now with photos of people trying them on.

 

[puckhead193]

Sorry, the Apple Store guy didn't let me take one. My wrist width is about 50mm, so it fit almost perfectly, with little space at the top and the bottom (barely visible due to the thickness of the watch.)

thanks anyway..

It is kind of curious that they didn't allow a photo. Instagram is beaming right now with photos of people trying them on.

yeah my tweetdeck list for #applewatch is exploding mostly with Chinese?

 

[alia]

It is kind of curious that they didn't allow a photo. Instagram is beaming right now with photos of people trying them on.

Seen Australia pictures and then China photos. I may have seen one photo where the caption was in Japanese. Japanese Apple Stores may just be more restrictive. I lived there for a while. Very restrictive culture.

 

[BeyondtheTech]

I put it on my infant daughter's wrist and her American Girl doll, too. Yep, it's massive.

 

[Patriot24]

https://instagram.com/p/1SFgENpLYa/?tagged=applewatch

So massive, guys.

 

[mightyjabba]

Seen Australia pictures and then China photos. I may have seen one photo where the caption was in Japanese. Japanese Apple Stores may just be more restrictive. I lived there for a while. Very restrictive culture.

Yeah, those Japanese sure are restrictive...

 

[mightyjabba]

https://instagram.com/p/1SFgENpLYa/?tagged=applewatch

So massive, guys.

It's not bigger than the Pebble, but to me the Pebble is too big. It's all subjective.

 

[alia]

Yeah, those Japanese sure are restrictive...

You can sit in the park in a furry suit reading manga and no one will bat an eyelash, but god forbid you accidentally try to enter a building using the wrong entrance... seriously. Very rules based.

 

[mightyjabba]

I lived there for 5 years, so I do have some idea.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

The 38mm is TINY based on the paper mockup on this wrist:

It should be common sense to anyone that it's relative to the wrist size.