Gerald Genta Chronograph GAS Line the watches it sold in

the watches it sold in the late 1960s had a cool elegance to them

and has seen any number of iterations in the past century — including a brilliant revival in recent years

like this chronograph from Clebar

Although Lemania loaned out the CH27 to other manufactures

Gerald Genta Chronograph GAS Line the watches it sold inYou likely know Grald Genta for his two most famous designs: that of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and the Patek Philippe Nautilus. But those two luxury sports watches constitute but a smidge of this genius Swiss industrial designers oeuvre. Both before 1972 when he conceived of the famed Universal Genve Polerouter and the Omega Constellation and after 1976, when he designed the Nautilus, Genta churned out watches by the thousands. (Or, at least