à la James Bond, the Tissot T-Touch Expert ($1,100) features a touch sensitive screen that activates numerous functions, including alarm, chronograph, altimeter, thermometer, compass, to name a few. Like the XL size titanium case and increased water resistance to 100m that separates it from the rest. This watch means real business and nobody mess with someone that dedicated.
First developed in 1970 for space travel is the only watch “flight qualified by NASA for all manned space missions”. The Omega Alaska Project ($5,500) has a removable anodized-aluminum casing and can handle temperatures between -243 and 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Pick one soon because is going into production, in a limited run of 1,970.
You can’t have a genie on a bottle but can have a coach on your wrist. The Suunto T6c ($430) is a sports laboratory on your wrist, giving you a detailed analysis of heart-rate variability, oxygen consumption, calories burned, barometric altimeter, dual time, and more. The Training Effect shows you how hard you have to train to take it to the next level. Really comfortable fabric heart-rate monitor strap and many PODs available.
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