Black Bay 79833MN

Steel and yellow gold, three time zones, and a black leather strap that keeps the whole thing from ever looking like a tool.

This is the watch you reach for when you know you'll be waking up somewhere else. The extra hand means you stop doing arithmetic at airport gates and in hotel rooms, and the rotating bezel lets you carry a third city without touching the crown, so home, where you are, and wherever you're headed next all sit on the dial at once. What makes this version worth living with is the gold: the warm accents catch light against the black dial and the brown and black bezel in a way that reads as considered rather than loud, and it dresses up far better than a travel watch has any right to. On the black leather strap it wears softer and lighter than the steel bracelet version, which matters on the fourth flight of the week. It's the rare piece that handles a long transit, a client dinner in another currency, and the walk back to the hotel without asking you to change anything.