Thank you, knew it weren't a Trabant which I linked to Eastern Germany, forgot about Lada
Whats all this rubbish about watch sizes
when I was actively collecting, mainly then vintage watches over 10 years ago 42mm was considered large and 38mm typical for a chrono. With regular 3 handed watches being smaller.
So don't know were this kadet sized case comes from, he keeps spouting on about. Bigger the case bigger the movement spacer nothing to do with having special sized cases to fit. I for one are not keen on these over sized watches. 43mm plenty for me
Just my opinion, but as men's dress watch sizes seemed to increase from the smaller 34/36mm sizes of yesteryear to the bigger 38-41mm of today (as Ronzy said this is slowly reversing), i always assumed the cadet/kadet size (around 36mm-38mm) was more a lady's size as against the larger gent's dress watch size of today, of course that's was just the way i picked up on things as i couldn't really find any difinitive info on it. But watching IW, Peter Simon seems to label a lot of watches as cadet, from 40mm to 45mm, think that is mainly because it's a word he's picked up and that sounds good and the audience will be oblivious to what cadet actually refers to size wise, a bit like when they use "Bombay glass", when there is no such thing, it's just domed glass, just used to impress viewers without actually meaning anything.
For me, and the average person (small to average wrist size)
36mm - 40mm is ok for Dress watches, prefer 38mm max but as long as lug to lug length is below 50mm then 40mm is ok, any bigger then it isn't a dress watch any longer.
38mm - 43mm is a good size for diver's watches, Pilot watches, or Auto Chronos etc. Personal preference is 40mm for Diver and 42mm for Auto Chrono.
Once you start getting bigger than that then, unless they have short lug to lug, you really need to have large/huge wrists or you have watches that look way too big for or over hanging your wrist.
I think, just my opinion of course, that many of these brands on IW (or online in general) with the bigger watch case sizes that are made in China, most of these brands seem to concentrate around 45mm mark and up, and it is easier and more economical to produce bigger watch cases, which are easier/simpler to add finishing (big square or slightly rounded edges, brushing, polishing/ plating etc) and will accommodate a bigger range of movements and dial styles than say smaller case sizes, which will only accommodate smaller movements, need more skillful better finishing, reduce amount of dials styles that can be accommodated, etc. So for these brands to get watches at low prices they get whats easiest for the back street watchmakers to produce/offer wholesale, ie big and bulky, make them gaudy add useless sub dials and inner and outer bezels to hide the fact that they really are low quality, don't have good case finishing, quality movements etc.
now he says he over ordered 
