Bremont certainly thinks so, as they’ve labelled it the Super Marine.  At first, you might say that this name owes a lot to it’s 500 meter water resistance rating.  However, once you dig into the history of the Bremont company (established 2002; first watch produced in 2007), you learn that they’re a British company, and that Super Marine was actually the company that manufactured the Spitfire fighter plane.

Now that we have that mini-history lesson out of the way, let’s turn our attention to the watch itself. Read more…

ABlogToRead has another in-depth review of one of our favorite watches, the Bremont U2. The watch is styled after the instrumentation of the U-2 spy plane and includes a specially protected movement inside a special material that allows the watch to survive – get this – a freaking cockpit ejection at full Gs. There is even another little treat for those in the know:

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