From 1957 until now, one watch company has been making the epitome of class and style for your wrist: Hamilton.

This American company, founded in 1892, decided in the 50s to make a splash in the drab marketplace. What was known as the secret assignment, or “Project X”, started in 1954 and lasted three years before its release, became the Ventura. It was the world’s first electric (read: battery-powered) watch and everyone from Elvis Presley in 1961's Blue Hawaii to Will Smith in Men in Black wore one. And since anyone who's anyone has one, so do I.

It's a simple design which evokes the sense of modernism that began to spill across the landscape of the late 1950s and early 60s. Try to find one today in mint condition and it could cost you upwards of a grand or more (but will make you look like a million bucks). Buy a new one and you still get the same highly designed innovation introduced fifty years ago, with the class to match.

Wear with: Anything from a suit to a T-shirt.

Buy:
Hamilton Ventura from Princeton Watches ($695)

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