Make like the pace car at your next road show with these automotive watches.

Your wife would probably call it a guy thing. Regardless, most every deal pro we’ve ever encountered has a deep love for his car — a pathological love, the kind of love of which restraining orders are made. How else to explain those key chains anchored by dangling BMW medallions or leather-backed embroidered Porsche crests? Or all those car-themed T-shirts, windbreakers, caps, mugs, sunglasses, paperweights and refrigerator magnets? Clearly, the only thing more exciting to a venture capitalist than his IPOs are his RPMs.

Unfortunately, we all must eventually leave our cars — and strapping your actual vehicle to your wrist tends to hinder your mobility. Thus the allure of the car-inspired watch. Designed with many of the same little flourishes as your favorite six-figure beater, they’re built for both style and functionality, many bearing Swiss movements and precision engineering. On the downside, they don’t offer much in the way of new- car smell. So you’ll just have buy a new car for that.

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