Top Watches for Dads & Grads 2025
June is a month of milestones, of handshakes at commencement ceremonies and heartfelt hugs on Father’s Day. It’s a time when we celebrate the achievements of graduates and honor the wisdom and love of fathers. At Feldmar, we believe that moments like this deserve to be marked with something truly timeless: a luxury watch.
Whether you’re celebrating a new beginning or honoring a lifetime of guidance, let a luxury timepiece be your statement of gratitude and admiration. For an even more personal touch, Feldmar offers engraving on casebacks.
FOR DADS: Longines Legend Diver 39mm
The Longines Legend Diver may have first been designed for underwater exploration, but with its timeless design and cutting-edge performance, it’s transcended that original purpose to become a true icon of watchmaking. Its distinctiveness begins with its two crowns and internal rotating bezel—the position of the bezel inside the case protects it from accidental manipulation and shocks that could alter its settings. The stainless steel 39mm case features an internal turning diving flange, screw-down case back, screw-in cown, and scratch-resistant sapphire crystal with several layers of anti-reflective coating on both sides. The blue lacquered polished dial has painted Arabic numerals and indexes, silvered polished hands, and Swiss Super-LumiNova. The Legend has legendary precision as well, powered by the exclusive Longines calibre L888 self-winding mechanical movement with a monocrystalline silicon balance-spring, with a power reserve of up to 72 hours. Complemented with a stainless steel bracelet with a micro adjustment system.
FOR GRADS: Seiko Luxe Prospex Alpinist SPB121
The perfect watch for the grad who is ready to go out and treat life as the ultimate adventure—the Seiko Prospex Alpinist meets every challenge with technological excellence and impeccable style. The 39.5mm stainless steel case has a rotating inner compass bezel made for outdoor thrills, screw-down crown, screw-in, see-through case back, and anti-reflective sapphire crystal with magnifier. The unique design features a stunning sunray-finish green dial with gold accents, LumiBrite and and markers, and a magnified date window. A 24-jewel automatic movement beats at a frequency of 21600 vibrations per hour, with a power reserve of approximately 70 hours, and can be wound manually or automatically. Paired with a supple brown leather strap with secure tri-fold push button release clasp. If the grad’s taste for adventure includes both land and sea, the Prospex Alpinist is water resistant to 200 meters.
FOR DADS: Longines Spirit Zulu Time
When Longines introduced their first dual time zone wristwatch in 1925, it featured the Zulu flag on the dial—Zulu referring to the letter “Z” that designates universal time for aviators. That fabled origin, that hallmark of century-old horological expertise, is very much in evidence in the meticulous execution of Spirit Zulu Time. The 42mm stainless steel and 18K yellow gold case features a bi-directional rotating bezel with a ceramic insert, screw-in crown, and scratch-resistant sapphire crystal with layers of anti-reflective coating on both sides. The deep black anthracite dial has applied Arabic numeral and gilt hands with Swiss Super-Luminova. Powered by an exclusive Longines caliber L844.4 self-winding mechanical movement, with moncrystalline silicon balance-spring power reserve of up to 72 hours. The stainless steel bracelet is the perfect accompaniment. For the dad who knows who he is and what he likes, this is the perfect timepiece.
FOR GRADS: Baume & Mercier Riviera 10746
Anniversaries are cause for celebration, and this is a timepiece worth celebrating. This Riviera model was one of three 50th Anniversary editions Baume & Mercier released to world-wide acclaim in 2023. The distinctive 39mm dodecagonal shaped case, with twelve sides and four screws, is crafted of polished and satin-finished stainless steel, with a sapphire crystal. A transparent smokey blue dial features a date indicator and Super-LumiNova coated hands and indices, and an open case back completes the fashionable sporty-chic look. The Riviera 10746 is driven by the Prestigious Baumatic manufacture calibre, meaning it comes with a nearly unmatched 8-year warranty. Ships with an interchangeable stainless steel bracelet and blue alligator leather strap. A watch any grad would be proud to wear.
FOR DADS: IWC Pilot’s Watch Big Pilot’s Watch 43
Iconic design, superb movement technology, and pronounced versatility, all wrapped up in an ergonomic stainless steel case with a diameter of 43mm—the Big Pilot’s Watch 43 is one of IWC’s most inspired aviator watches, and a fully versatile sports watch. The perfectly functional cockpit-instrument design and oversized conical crown is inspired by a military observation watch from the 1940s, and the case includes a screw-in crown, see-through sapphire glass case back, and anti-reflective convex sapphire crystal. Visible through the sapphire case back is the IWC-manufactured 82100 calibre movement with a power reserve of 60 hours thanks to the Pellaton winding system reinforced with ceramic components. The dial, blue with luminescence, has Arabic numeral markers, rhodium-plated hands, and central hacking seconds. With a blue calfskin leather strap, this is a timepiece as comfortable as it is impressive.
FOR GRADS: Norquain Wild One Hakuna Mipaka
This is your chance to own a one-of-a-kind timepiece and do some good as well. Norquain has partnered with wildlife ambassador Dean Schneider to support his wildlife sanctuary and animal rehabilitation center in South Africa, Hakuna Mipaka—Swahili for “no limits.” As an innovator in materials, the sand-colored rubber shock absorber has been mixed with sand from the Hakuna Mipaka oasis, creating a unique speckled design. The sandblasted titanium case has a black Norteq® cage, an engraved black plate on the left case flank, and a screw-down crown. The black dial is decorated with a lion fur pattern, as well as the sanctuary’s spear-and-shield logo, and the pattern repeats on the black vegan-certified rubber strap. The dial features diamond-cut faceted hour and minute hands, flat seconds hand, and flat skeleton indexes, all filled with white X1 Super-LumiNova. Produced in a limited edition of just 500 pieces, 10% of earnings from the sales of the watch are donated to the animal sanctuary. All this, and water resistance to 200 meters.
FOR DADS: Grand Seiko Heritage SBGA211
Inspired by the Hotaka mountains, and crafted in their shadow, the Heritage SBGA211 is made by the master watchmakers of the Shinshu Watch Studio in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture. Nicknamed the “Snowflake”, this is one of the most revered collectors pieces at Feldmar. The timepiece has a 41mm high-intensity titanium case that achieves an astonishing light-as-a-snowflake feel, and a white dial graced with the texture of new fallen snow. A blue seconds hand glides across the dial at an ultra-smooth pace thanks to Grand Seiko’s famous Spring Drive movement which combines the motive force of a mainspring with the high precision of a quartz watch. With a high-intensity titanium bracelet to match the case, the watch is 30% lighter than stainless steel, making it a true pleasure to wear.
FOR GRADS: Frederique Constant Classics Ladies Classics Quartz
Timeless elegance personified, this Swiss made “stars and moon” watch is perfectly sized for a woman’s wrist. The round, beautifully proportioned 36mm polished gold stainless steel has an engraved case back, and convex scratch-resistant sapphire crystal. Forty exquisite diamonds are individually hand set onto the bezel, and eight diamond hour markers adorn the rich navy blue dial, along with a star motif. Rose gold plated hands and indices add to the mystique of the dial. The FC-220 movement is powered by a battery, the quartz crystal regulating time to an astounding accuracy of 15 seconds a month. Traditional style, superb functionality, and unparalleled beauty, this timepiece commands attention on any wrist.
FOR DADS: Tudor Black Bay Pro
The Black Bay Pro is a masterpiece of the watchmakers’ art, robust and powerful. The sleek, polished and satin-finished stainless steel case features a stainless steel screw-down crown, with the iconic Tudor rose in relief. The opaline dial has ceramic markers and hands outlined in black for bold, easy-to-read contrast. The Black Bay Pro is powered by the Tudor Manufacture Calibre MT5652 movement with built-in GMT function, and presents two time zones—reference time is indicated by an angular yellow “snowflake” hand, an aesthetic hallmark of Tudor, which completes a lap of the dial every 24 hours. Local time is indicated by another, shorter “snowflake” hand set by a jumping hour, which can be moved either backwards or forwards. Finished with a riveted steel bracelet with polished and sastin finish, and Tudor T-fit clasp with rapid adjustment.
FOR GRADS: Nomos Club Sport Neomatik 39 Smoke
The Club Sport Neomatik 39 Smoke is tailor-made for the grad who deserves every accolade, a sporty automatic watch that represents style and connoisseurship. The impeccably designed stainless steel case with rounded bezel has a diameter of 39.5mm, with an engraved case back and anti-reflective sapphire crystal, and is paired with a polished and satin-finished stainless steel link bracelet. The dial, in radiant smoke gray, has generous Club typography and both recessed and grooved sub-seconds dial, for engaging clarity, with Super-LumiNova coated hands and hour markers. The watch is unusually slender thanks to the neomatik movement’s architecture. Developed in-house by NOMOS, the automatic caliber DUW 3001 sets new standards.
FOR DADS AND GRADS: Montblanc Iced Sea Automatic Date Watch and Pen
The perfect choice for when you’re celebrating both a dad and a grad—an outstanding diving watch for dad, and an elegantly proportioned pen for grad.
Beautifully crafted pens are an important part of Montblanc’s legacy with distinctive design, features, and consummate practicality. A Montblanc pen is a gift that says, congratulations, I’m so proud of you.
The Iced Sea Automatic Date is Montblanc’s first ever sports diving watch. It features a glacier pattern dial that gives the impression of gazing into the depths of a glacier. This black glacial pattern is inspired by the Sea of Ice, the main glacier of the Mont-Blanc Massif, the texture achieved using an almost-forgotten ancestral technique called gratté-boisé. This timepiece is housed in a 41mm stainless steel case with a unidirectional bi-color ceramic bezel and engraved case back, with a tapered interchangeable stainless steel bracelet. The Iced Sea Automatic conforms to the ISO 6425 norm for diving watches, and is water-resistant to 300 meters.
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