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Calatrava
The Officer’s watch had its origins during the First World War, when pocket watches with hinged backs were reconfigured into something you could pop on your wrist. Slightly handier for combat. Patek Philippe’s latest incarnation, the Calatrava 5153, inspired by these First World War era timepieces, has the distinctive protective cover over the case back. And…
Because of the significance it held in the original 2005 novel, the Drive filmmakers took a long time deliberating over the watch Ryan Gosling’s character should own. A gift given to him by his father, it was one of his few possessions, and for a leading man that’s virtually mute, it’s the films visual and stylistic…