The BAW is not your garden-variety Rolex Submariner (41 mm) or even the slightly larger Yacht-Master (42 mm). I’m talking about the true behemoths of the watch world: the IWC BIG Pilot, the Breitling Navitimer, and one of Panerai’s classically beefy Luminors. If Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn’t have worn it to gun down his enemies in the ‘90s, it doesn’t qualify as a BAW.
The splendor of wearing a BAW is that it feels so rude to do so. A few weeks ago, I wrote about my most…

