While its striking design will keep you looking down at your wrist, one of the latest () is housed in a 42 mm titanium case entirely devoid of oxygen, a feature that eliminates fogging and prevents oxidization at higher elevations. (An earlier chronograph version of the timepiece was field tested last year by British-Nepali mountaineer Nimsdai Purja on his sixth ascent of Mount Everest.) The rotating Northern and Southern Hemisphere globes on the face are set against a luminous gray dial etched with a pattern that mimics glacial ice, while the case back is adorned by a 3D colored laser engraving of the Pakistan side of K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. For armchair and actual alpinists, this is a watch worthy of your time.
