4 great watches to prove that dad rocks … just in time for Father's Day
Earlier in the week we posted a list of worthy Father’s Day gifts, with a strong bent towards straps and accessories that are actually available in the T+T store. Well, today we’re doubling down on the dad, with a handful of watches suited to the father figure in your life. Grand Seiko 9F86 Quartz GMT If your dad is anything like mine, all they want is a ‘good watch’ — which is code for something that will do the job (any job really) without needing to be overly precious. If that rings true to you, let me suggest these quartz GMTs from Grand Seiko. Perfect size, impeccable quality, useful functions and absolutely zero fuss. Hard to beat. $4400 Tissot Seastar 1000 Another watch that’s hard to beat on the value-proposition front, the Tissot Seastar 1000 offers a lot of the bells and whistles that make a modern Swiss watch great (80 hours of power reserve, ceramic bezel and a fancy dial), in a package that’s good looking and unostentatious. $1000 Montblanc Summit 2 Dad is into his connected devices but needs to level up in the wrist department? How about the stylish Montblanc Summit 2? Smaller, and much more wearable…
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The Master collection has been a staple in Longines’ catalogue for some time, epitomising the sort of casual elegance for which the bramd is so well known. The latest member of this family — the Longines Master Moonphase — continues to offer the strong combination of timeless style and well-integrated small complications that we saw last year with the clever Annual Calendar model. This time around the additional functionality is taking more of a romantic bent — in the form of a moon phase and pointer date combination. Before we dial in on the complication, let’s take a look at the overall picture. The new Longines Master Moonphase models are offered in either 40 or 42mm cases, with a range of dials — black or silver barleycorn, a fine textured pattern that is a hallmark of the Master line, and this version, in a blue sunray finish. This version is also the larger 42mm version with restrained applied baton markers (the smaller blue offering adds some top Wesselton diamond hour markers into the mix, if you’re looking for a bit of bling). The combination of classical case shape, versatile modern case size and on trend blue dial treatment add up…
It might surprise you to learn that one of my favourite watches from this year’s SIHH show was the Dazzling Rendez-Vous from Jaeger-LeCoultre. The Rendez-Vous has been a strong women’s offering for some time, but this Dazzling version really ups the ante. This is thanks largely to that outer ring of 36 diamonds, which dominate the bezel. And while the size and clarity of these rocks is impressive, what really makes them shine is the setting — they use a griffe, or claw-like setting, which shows off much more of the surface of the stones and lets in more light, which equals … you guessed it, more dazzle. And this latest addition to the JLC DRV (as I’ve taken to calling it) is more dazzling still, thanks to the fully set case and bracelet. Really, it’s outstanding. The bracelet boasts 310 stones weighing 22.27 carats, which is more than enough to sink your teeth into. And then there’s the profusion of stones on the case and the inner bezel. But even though this timepiece is positively dripping, there’s plenty of delicacy at play too. The mother-of-pearl dial is rich, with a finely detailed outer section that is ’tiled’ and, of…
It’s somewhat paradoxical, but the explosion of interest in fine timepieces, fuelled by the internet and social media, has also resulted in the increased popularity of offline meetings. And they’ve always been there — before Instagram and Facebook were the prime drivers of the ‘watchfam’, it was the various watch forums, like Timezone and Purists, that resulted in that weird ritual of online-friends-but-offline-strangers meeting in public, and piling lots of watches out onto tables, much to the bemusement of strangers. More recently still, this get together culture has evolved again, thanks to events such as Fratello Watches Speedy Tuesday world tour and Worn & Wound’s Windup Watch Fair. These events bring together more fans, brands and other players in the space than is practical otherwise. To date, though, there’s not been a lot happening on this front in Australia, something that Paxton Wong is hoping to change with Watchfest, a collector event taking place in Sydney on the 6th and 7th of September. So, we spent a few minutes chatting to Mr Wong to find out more. What’s the idea behind Watchfest? “I wanted to bring the collectors together. I wanted to bring the collectors to influence the new people.…