Ever since I watched Ben Saunders and his expedition teammate Tarka L’Herpiniere drag sleds throughout Antarctica on the finish of February in 2014, I’ve been a fan of Bremont. How the younger British model has persistently managed to search out itself on the timekeeping middle of audacious, off-the-beaten-path expeditions led by immensely gifted and amiable characters is fully past me. However that doesn’t actually matter. What does matter is that these distinctive adventures seize the creativeness, inform the viewers, and may even encourage motion in a manner that many watch-related pursuits not often do. And within the case of Bremont, in addition they routinely yield colourful and succesful watches designed across the expeditions for which they have been deployed. One such watch is the brand new Supermarine “Mission Doable,” constructed to have a good time Bremont ambassador Nims Dai’s unbelievable record-breaking mountaineering expedition that concluded within the Fall of 2019.
The dial of the Mission Doable Restricted Version
The rotor is engraved with the altitudes of every of the 14 summits
And if that is the primary you’re listening to of Nims and Mission Doable, the previous Ghurka and British Particular Forces operator summited all 14 of the world’s eight,000 meter peaks in six months — a file that took its earlier holder eight years to perform. Nims wore a Bremont for all 14 summits, albeit a white-dialed S300 — a barely smaller and less complicated variant than the Mission Doable restricted version being launched this week.
With its subdued navy blue dial contrasted by a cheerful bronze bezel, the brand new Mission Doable watch is the primary time Bremont has launched a strong bronze ingredient to considered one of its watches, diver or in any other case — and, given the consequence, I’d hazard a guess it gained’t be the final. The multi-piece 43mm Supermarine case itself is aircraft-grade titanium, although — a mix that we’ve seen put on extraordinarily comfortably in different titanium Bremont divers, just like the latest Waterman designed for Mark Healey or the Terra Nova and Endurance watches — each designed for a pair of expeditions led by Ben Saunders, together with the profitable completion of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1800-mile Terra Nova route from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole and again.
The dial structure differs from the aforementioned examples, although, delivering a mix of utilized 6-9-12 components discovered on the America’s Cup Supermarines from 2015, and utilized round indices from the usual S500, whereas deploying the identical case and GMT motion execution (utilizing the ETA 2893-2 as a base) of the previous. I truthfully wasn’t positive what we have been going to get after Nims Dai’s historic romp in 2019, however it is sensible that Bremont caught with the Supermarine platform he most popular, whereas including in a bit of additional utility, notably as a 24-hour hand might be helpful within the wilderness to not solely monitor a second time zone, but in addition as a rudimentary compass of kinds, enabling wearers to orient themselves utilizing the positioning of the solar relative to the place of the the GMT hand.
On the wrist, the S500 already casts a stout, 16mm profile — one which’s amplified vastly by the added thickness of the heavy-gauge NATO strap favored by Nims. I’d argue that, even with the case’s compact lug-to-lug measurements, it’s too thick for a NATO, however this explicit version ships with a good-looking two-stitched leather-based strap, which, in my previous expertise with this case, wears extraordinarily comfortably on leather-based straps. The Bremont Supermarine S500 Mission Doable is proscribed to 300 items. It has a retail value of $6,695, and might be ordered straight from bremont.com.
The rotor is engraved with the altitudes of every of the 14 summits
