Description
“I’ve paged Via stacks of books at the historical past of watches. . . . However I hadn’t come throughout a e book that in truth moved me till I picked up A Guy and His Watch. The quantity is stuffed with heartfelt tales.”
—T: The New York Instances Taste Magazine
Paul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona each and every unmarried day for 35 years till his demise in 2008. The enduring timepiece, more than likely the only so much sought-after watch on the earth, is now within the ownership of his daughter Clea, who wears it on a daily basis in his reminiscence. Franklin Roosevelt wore a chic gold Tiffany watch, proficient to him by way of a family member on his birthday, to the well-known Yalta Convention the place he shook the palms of Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. JFK’s Omega worn to his presidential inauguration, Ralph Lauren’s watch bought from Andy Warhol’s private assortment, Sir Edmund Hillary’s Rolex worn all over the primary-ever summit of Mt. Everest . . . those and lots of extra compose the tales of the arena’s so much coveted watches captured in A Guy and His Watch. Matthew Hranek, an eye fixed collector and NYC males’s Taste fixture, has traveled the arena accomplishing firsthand interviews and diving into unique collections to collect the by no means-sooner than-instructed tales of 76 watches, finished with surprising authentic pictures of each and every unmarried piece. Via those intimate money owed and Hranek’s storytelling, the watches grow to be extra than simply timepieces and standing symbols; they constitute historic moments, pioneering achievements, heirlooms, circle of relatives mementos, items of love, and lifetime friendships.
—T: The New York Instances Taste Magazine
Paul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona each and every unmarried day for 35 years till his demise in 2008. The enduring timepiece, more than likely the only so much sought-after watch on the earth, is now within the ownership of his daughter Clea, who wears it on a daily basis in his reminiscence. Franklin Roosevelt wore a chic gold Tiffany watch, proficient to him by way of a family member on his birthday, to the well-known Yalta Convention the place he shook the palms of Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. JFK’s Omega worn to his presidential inauguration, Ralph Lauren’s watch bought from Andy Warhol’s private assortment, Sir Edmund Hillary’s Rolex worn all over the primary-ever summit of Mt. Everest . . . those and lots of extra compose the tales of the arena’s so much coveted watches captured in A Guy and His Watch. Matthew Hranek, an eye fixed collector and NYC males’s Taste fixture, has traveled the arena accomplishing firsthand interviews and diving into unique collections to collect the by no means-sooner than-instructed tales of 76 watches, finished with surprising authentic pictures of each and every unmarried piece. Via those intimate money owed and Hranek’s storytelling, the watches grow to be extra than simply timepieces and standing symbols; they constitute historic moments, pioneering achievements, heirlooms, circle of relatives mementos, items of love, and lifetime friendships.
