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Antarctic explorer wears mechanical watch!


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Yesterday eve I participated to a Hewlett PAckard Enterprise and Intel joined event in of of the new "all glass" skycraper in the center of Milan (IT).

 

Diamond tower and its view over the city:
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Apart of the Gen9 new generation servers, they made to participate and have a speech also Ben Saunders (no, not the fighter).

 

He's this guy: http://scottexpedition.com/ who, with his companion Tarka, has been the only one to do (and finish alive) the expedition of the British explorer Scott, who in 1911/12 tried to be the 1st man to reach the South Pole, beaten by Amundsen who arrive first, and dieing on the way back with other 4 men.

 

No one, since then, tried the same path through Antarctic. 100 years later they did, pulling 200kg sleed and walking with temperatures between -30 to -55°C for 2888km (1795miles) into unknown and barely mapped territors (they said they were using maps from 1960 which were the latest available).

 

One of the things that cought my attention was when he told about the fact that it was a disaster to have electronic devices (they tested something like 25 laptop to verify which could resist, and anyway before to use the final one he had to put it in his pants for like 1h before to be able to switch it on) and in fact he was using a mechanical watch...

 

Therefore, after the end of the presentations, I made my way to him and finally asked him which watch was that one (I was wearing my new Ferrari-Panerai in that moment ;) ).

 

So it came out that we was wearing the same piece he was sporting that evening, just on a different strap, since in Antarctica he had a velcro nylon strap so that he could wear it over his jacket sleeve in order not to expose any skin when looking at it.

 

It was this great piece:
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Bremont Supermarine Titanium Terra Nova: http://www.bremont.com/briefing-room/the-new-titanium-terra-nova-breaks-the-ice-with-ben-saunders-on-world-first
and:
http://www.bremont.com/chronometers/range/terra-nova

 

Yesterday it was on a very nice black leather NATO strap.

 

Here a video of the watch and the expedition:
http://youtu.be/9tNQMAMZhZY?list=UUNadMpnu_CwhbtDgJdGc11g

 

Amazing!

 

And now: when it will be repped? :D

 

PS: also yesterday I've seen my very first gen Panerai: on the wrist of Stefano Venturi, the CEO of HP Italy!

This guy here:

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I loathe Bremont. Nonsense company with a copied "in-house" movement relying solely on marketing gimmicks to sell watches. There's no real market-driven value indication for what they charge for the watches and they don't sell many. They regularly get slammed at Hodinkee and in most "Haute Horologie" circles.  

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Very interesting story and post. Always thought that would be PAM´s. Will check this video and the expedition out later.

Don´t know much about Bremont except they have partnerships with several military airsquadrons, but I do like the design and GMT function of that watch pictured.

Another brand to look in as well, so it will be fun to read about expeditions, adventure and watches. Thanks for sharing.

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