Once upon a time, golfers had to be content with tossing a few blades of grass in the air and squinting at a distant green, muttering: “it looks like an easy four iron”. Fairway distance markers help, but the arrival of pocket-sized rangefinders and GPS equipped golf watches has been another nail in the coffin of what some purists would call the art of golfing. On the other hand – it’s a game that would drive a Zen master raving mad at times, so why not make the most of what technology has to offer … and why not do it in style? Which brings us to the elegant Reconvilier Hercules Golf Master. This rotating timepiece has two functions – on one side it shows a classic analogue display but when tee-off time comes around, it flips over to show digital measurements of the distance to the front edge or center of the green. ..
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