What with all of these leaps and bounds in the tech realm, one's gotta wonder: what's to become of such seemingly soon-to-be-obsolete objects like, say, watches? Wristbound timepieces may have clenched the category for aesthetic return, save for perhaps the iPhone, but single-tasking mechanisms may just be en route to the wayside if something's not done ... pronto!
Good thing Daddy's Day is coming up, yes? Paternal preferences for presents vary, of course, but what Daddy Dearest wouldn't love him a ticking timepiece, all shiny and new, on his day of honor?
Been doing some window shopping for some of the world's most wondrous horological devices, and believe to have laid before you, my darlings, three of the most exquisite timepieces fit for even the most fabby father figure and his soon-to-arrive special day!
Have a lookie, Lovelies!
Harry Winston's Opus 8
Ooooh, Mama like, and Daddy surely will, as well! With its hybrid digi-mechani movement inspired by LED designs of the early 1970s, it's a gorgeously groovy throwback piece that he'd surely love to sport!
The Master Eight Days Perpetual, by Jaeger Le Coultre
Time may fly when a good time's being had, but the Master Eight Days Perpetual timepiece will be sure to keep right on ticking for a full eight days following the last wind. Moreoever, how HOT is this watch in platinum? Whoa, Daddy!
Day & Night, by Romain Jerome
Time is but a human construct -- and quite the constricting one, at that -- so why not give Father the gift of freedom from Old Father Time? Sure, he's highly likely to continue growing older by the day, but perhaps, sans the persistent reminder of the tick-tick-ticking of the hour, second and minute hands of time, aging won't be such a self-fulfilling prophecy! With just two tourbillons working as a dichotomous duo -- one repping day and the other, night -- time is truly of no object.
For more fabulous -- and timely -- Father's Day gift ideas, why not pop on over to the
Posh Father's Day Gift Guide? Time's a-tickin', sisters!
I leave you with "The World's Hardest Riddle:"
I turn polar bears white
And I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
And girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
And normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
And make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Guesses? 