Here to help you get back in the swing of meetings and appointments is a brand-spanking-new timepiece: The Pilot's Navigator Date by J.Crew and Marathon Watch Company, which hit J.Crew's website today. Like the rest of Marathon's rugged-as-hell watches, the collaborative edition of the Pilot's Navigator Date combines Swiss engineering and military durability. It includes a unique fibershell case that is shock- and sweat-resistant, and features self-contained tritium gas tubes that guarantee visibility in dim environments. Where J.Crew changes it up, however, is on the blue-and-gray nylon strap, and the J.Crew emblem etched into the 316L parkerized steel crown. Basically, it's the blue steel of the bunch, which means that it's really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking.
It was 1981, and the Rolling Stones were stuck. They had committed to a massive summer tour, and they didn't want to waste the opportunity to promote a new record. But Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were fighting—barely speaking, much less writing any new songs—and the clock was ticking. "There was no time to make a whole new album and make the start of the tour," said Richards, in 1993. The band's longtime engineer, Chris Kimsey, came up with an elegant solution. They had released five albums in the previous seven years, so maybe, he reasoned, there were enough worthy outtakes or unfinished drafts to assemble a record.
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