Gift Concepts for Dads and Grads

It may be the single weekend on the calendar that rhymes.

We’re alluding to a many-week extent of honoring both “Dads and Grads,” through which Father’s Day bestows the limelight with all those hardworking pupils who are jubilantly throwing mortarboards in the air — and anyhow you've got to return up with gifts to celebrate the attention of both.

Two things are clear: Dad doesn’t want(or certainly even want) another tie, and gold pens for grads are about as passe as teaching choreography in class.

Here are more ideas to inspire you and obtain your creative juices flowing:

 • Something (Semi-) Practical. Every kid going off to school or grad school will want to personalize his or her new lebensraum. If they’re young businesspeople, they’ll presumably genuflect ere a framed art print of the first 1984 Macintosh computer, which was just named No. 3 on Time journal list of “The 50 Most Influential Devices of All Time.”

And if the print adds an inspirational quote from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs himself — a la “The people that are mad enough to vary the asteroid usually do” — such a lot the more important.

 • Something They’ll Always Remember. It’s been announced that surveillance“telegraph” who we are — or who you want to be — to the remainder of the planet. So when The Wall Street Journal practices the word “excellent” to describe Baume & Mercier’s Clifton line of awareness for men, you understand they’ll be treasured for years to return.

Does Dad want to route his personal“Mad Men” powerful culture of decades ex? Then the perfect Father’s Day gift is that the Clifton 10055 watch. it's a 43 mm case, a black alligator strap, a sun satin finish, a silver-colored dial with moon phase, day, month, and central hand functions. It’s bound to give dad a memory he’ll always remember.

As for grads, one reviewer gushed that the affordable new Classima 10214 model from an equivalent Swiss watchmaker — complete with 40 mm polished steel case, blue steel hands, Roman numbers, and a fixed guilloche decoration dial — allows those “on the end of their careers to treating themselves to a watch on a par with their goals.” Shop both watches online or by calling 1-800-MERCIER. Free wrapping and proof are submitted for all purchases.

 • Something they will Do Together. It exhibits happening that fathers, as Psychology Today says, not only “provide (their kids) approvingly and honor,” but also help them become “more independent and self-confident.”

In other words, they will never bond enough.

Ergo, buy dad and your grad tickets to some event they both like — be it a ball game or a concert — and perhaps even spring for dinner out afterward.