The Role of Mountaineering Watches in Extreme Expeditions
The Ever-Evolving Role of Watches in Extreme Adventures The trend for professional climbers and explorers to wear rugged, high-performance watches during their dangerous mountain expeditions has defined the watch industry over the last decade. These timepieces, designed to withstand the harshest environments, have become vital tools (not just accessories) for those individuals who continue to push the limits of human achievement. The watch-adventurer partnership has, of course, been around much longer than a decade, but its most recent iteration seems as likely to ensue well into the future as it has to evolve in the past. For close to a century, luxury watchmakers have enjoyed an undying romance with the climbing world. They have accompanied time and again some of history's most prominent adventurers as they’ve ascended many of Earth’s most impressive—if not impossible—mountaintops. The shared relationship that exists between watchmakers and the heritage of climbing continue...