TIME, GENTLEMEN

New year, new wrist: now is the time to revive your watch collection with these modern classics for all times of day and night

1. If you have a burning need of a watch that can tell the time in 24 cities simultaneously, get a Zenith Grande Class Traveller Open Multicity on your wrist; its spiralling rotating city disk looks the business too. www.zenith-watches.com
2. For those sportier moments, add the TAG Heuer Grand Carrera to your collection: it has an exceptionally clear chronograph, made possible by a brand new complication, the Calibre RS. www.tagheuer.com
3. IWC may be more famous for its pilot’s watches but if you’re going the other way, underwater, one of its Aquatimers is essential: try the split minute chronograph in titanium. www.iwc.com
4. Meanwhile, for those seasonal black-tie dinners you could do no better than the limited-edition Chaumet Jumping Hour, which displays the hour in an aperture in the dial and looks tres elegant, as they say in Monte Carlo. www.chaumet.com
5. And for the biggest power reserve on any mechanical watch, head north from Switzerland to A. Lange und Söhne in Germany and their beautiful new Lange 31 which has a 31 day reserve – and a rather longer waiting list. www.alange-soehne.com
6. Finally M. A. Rapport’s, Captain’s duo watch winder with a beautiful mahogany and brass finish and beige interior guarantees to keep whatever watch you choose running smooth and on time no matter how long it’s off your wrist. www.rapportlondon.com

- Darius Sanai