The Marlin line has lived in the 1960s; this one reaches back to the 1930s navigator’s chronographs of Breitling, Longines and Angelus, with a coiled tachymeter snail at the dial’s centre and a telemeter scale around the rim — start the chronograph at the flash, stop it at the thunder, and read off how far away the storm is. Brushed 40 mm steel, bumper pushers, a domed acrylic crystal and a quartz movement; cream dial on leather for $279 or a bracelet for $319, or sky-blue-and-orange on brown leather.