Graduation day is the starting point of the rest of your life. It's exciting (and a little terrifying). You're leaving your comfortable school routine to enter a world of the unknown. It's still a day to celebrate how far you've come and how far you've yet to
Best Budget Chronographs As far as watch complications go, the chronograph is one of the most useful and most stylish. It’s why you’ll see a chronograph function on all types of watches, from racing and sport styles to less-obvious divers. Whether you use a chronograph function
Since the introduction of the Santos-Dumont wristwatch by Cartier in the early 1900s, watches designed for flight have taken a permanent spot on the wrists of aviators everywhere. Much of this can be attributed to the earliest Flieger watches worn by the Luftwaffe in World
Architecture has Frank Gehry, fine arts has Pablo Picasso, and the watch world has Gérald Genta. Easily the greatest watch designer of all time, Swiss native Gérald Genta is behind some of the most iconic watches ever created. He singlehandedly pioneered the luxury sports watch. Although
If you travel a lot–whether for business or pleasure–a worldtimer watch is a must-have. To give you a brief history, the world time complication was invented in the 1930s by an independent watchmaker named Cottier, who gave out his design to a number of watch companies, most
After I graduated from college, I took my hard-earned finance degree and put it to good use as an elk hunting guide in Pinedale, Wyoming. My last day as a guide was in 2006, and I never looked back. Fast forward nearly ten years. A few
In the more than 60 years since IWC first launched its Ingenieur wristwatch, this iconic model has gone through countless upgrades and updates. From the simple and elegant original Ingenieur of the 1950s to the modern, Gérald Genta look of the 1970s Ingenieur SL, the
Founded by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868, the International Watch Company — or IWC, as it’s better known — is one of Switzerland’s most well-known watch manufacturers. It’s also one of its most different. While most Swiss watch companies located their factories in
Ladies, grab your girls! Men, grab your dudes! Teens, grab your buddies! “G.I. Joe Retaliation” has something for everyone: a start-studded and studly cast, action-packed fights scenes, and iconic action figures. This movie epitomizes classic Americana at its finest, and what better way to do
It's a classy time to be a secret agent on the silver screen when luxury watches are standard apparel. James Bond's OMEGA watch in Skyfall is looking sharp, as is Aaron Cross' watch in The Bourne Legacy, which debuts this Friday, August 10. Aaron Cross sports a
