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I have a number of my great uncle’s sporty watches from the 1940s and 1950s, and those weren’t 26mm. The 29-31mm women’s watches have worked well for me. My mother in law’s 26mm 1970s gold President looks great on my wrist as jewelry but is almost too small to read as a day watch. I have a couple of watches from my grandmother that are basically the size of my pinkie tip, and are unusable as timepieces. Perhaps as a housewife in the 1940s and 1950s she didn’t need to look at her watch as much. Kids back then got themselves to and from school themselves.
My sons are both big and former football players. One has a more slender physique and could get away with wearing a 36mm watch, although he doesn’t have any desire to wear a 36mm watch. The other one definitely needs a 40mm or bigger. Younger guys are still so used to looking at their phone for the time, that I think a wristwatch will need to be legible.
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