Elite Traveler Spring 2019

STYLE MEN’S WATCHES

IWC AQUATIMER PERPETUAL CALENDAR DIGITAL DATE- MONTH EDITION “50 YEARS” In celebration of its first dive watch’s 50th anniversary, IWC included a perpetual calendar, flyback chronograph and Ceratanium, a world-first material combining the best aspects of titanium (lightness and durability) with ceramic (hard and scratch-resistant). The perpetual calendar uses apertures to display the day and month, with a subdial at 6 o’clock for leap years. At 12 o’clock, there’s a combined totalizer with hour and minute counters. Rather than a unidirectional bezel, it uses a proprietary SafeDive system with rotating internal and external bezels. The internal bezel only moves when the external bezel is rotated in a counterclockwise direction, ensuring your dive time cannot accidentally be shortened. $46,800, IWC in New York, +1 212 355 7271, iwc.com

by Kristen Shirley

DIVE WATCHES Whether you’re diving into the ocean’s depths or just like a sporty look, one thing’s for sure: Your dive watch will spend more time on land than under the sea. After conquering the technical requirements for diving, watchmakers added useful land-based complications like flyback chronographs and calendars, and made them more attractive for everyday wear with decorated and guilloché dials. Here, we round up our favorites, from a watch that will take you 2.5 miles below the earth’s surface (you’ll be dead, but your watch will still work), to a mechanical watch with chiming alarms and a sturdy everyday dive watch.

ULYSSE NARDIN DIVER GREAT WHITE With roots in marine chronometers an deep associations with the sea (its sy m an anchor), dive watches were a natur a progression for Ulysse Nardin. Its new e dive watch, the Diver Chronometer, ha concave, inverted bezel for tracking yo dive time. On the dial, there’s a power reserve at 12 o’clock, and date and sm a seconds at 6 o’clock. The caseback on limited-edition Diver Great White has motif of a great white shark stamped o Should you want an open caseback to admire the in-house movement, there’ s limited-edition Monaco Yacht Show w a as well as classic blue and black versio $8,900, Ulysse Nardin in New York, +1 212 257 4920, ulysse-nardin.com

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BREITLING SUPEROCEAN HÉRITAGE II CHRONOGRAPH 44 OUTERKNOWN A historic dive watch, the original Superocean debuted in 1957. In a recent edition, Breitling partnered with surfer Kelly Slater to introduce a first for the brand: a strap made with Econyl yarn from Outerknown (co-founded by Slater himself), which repurposes fishing nets (a large ocean polluter) and recycles them into yarn. The watch is a COSC-certified chronometer with 60-second, 30-minute and 12-hour counters; it also shows the day and date. The black DLC-coated stainless-steel case contrasts nicely with the ocean-blue dial. For legibility underwater, the triangle at 12 o’clock on the bezel has a Super- Luminova-coated dot (the hour and minute hands are coated as well).

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$7,100, Breitling in New York, +1 855 999 1884, breitling.com