CIGAR SIZING
The Basics: There are two main dimensions on a cigar. Length, and ring gauge. The later is the one that people have a problem with. So lets clear the air...
Cigar Length:
Usually measured in inches, simply put, from head to toe. It doesn't get any easier.
Ring Gauge
Ring gauge is not some magical number, or some weird unfounded number
thrown out there to please aficionados and no one else. Ring gauge is
simply the diameter of a cigar, in 64th's of an inch.
The size of a cigar, when determined by a name such as corona, torpedo,
robusto, etc is not a universal standard. In other words, one company's
corona is another company's churchill even though both measure the exact
same length and ring gauge. Once you understand this, most of the confusion regarding cigar size disappears.
There are however, "classic" measurements for cigars that most cigar makers attempt to follow. But remember, just because a cigar is 7 1/4 inches in length with a 47 ring gauge doesn't necessarily mean that the manufacturer will designate that cigar as a churchill. All you really have to know is that cigars are categorized by length and ring gauge which is a fraction of an inch measured in 64ths. For example: a cigar with a 52 ring gauge measures 52/64ths of an inch in diameter.
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