In the late 1930s,  Egidio Cressi left a career in banking to spend his time closer to the sea. He and his brother Giovanni Battista, known as Nanni, had grown up in Genoa, a port city on the Ligurian coast where the relationship between people and the water runs deep and practical rather than romantic. They were not dreamers building a brand. They were two men who liked being in the water and found that the equipment available to...