Elite Traveler September-October 2017

INSPIRE TOP 50 WATCHES

Calendars One of the more useful functions on wristwatches today is the calendar, which keeps track of the day, date, month and more, depending on the type of calendar movement. These watches are also classic and quite beautiful in looks, especially if they feature a moonphase indication. There are three types of calendar watches: complete calendars that need to be adjusted in months that are not 31 days; annual calendars that need to be adjusted in the short month of February; and perpetual calendars. The more complicated perpetual calendar tracks and automatically changes the date at the end of each month— taking into account the varying lengths. In short, its complex mechanics recognize whether a month has 28, 30 or 31 days. It even tracks leap years. Perpetual calendars generally do not need a single adjustment until the year 2100, when the leap year that should happen will not occur in order to keep consistent with the Gregorian calendar.