Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot Watch
When you break it down to the bare bones, watches are there to tell the time. Throughout their history, these tools have been redesigned to fit their environment. Nowadays, watches exist more as status symbols and as beautiful artisanal artefacts, and so the environment has become one of luxury, not survival. But before the digital age, before we had the time to appreciate the keeping of time, watches were called upon to play a much more important role. Dive watches, trench watches, pilot watchesThese timepieces were born of necessity, and with them, enduring design principles emerged.?The Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot Watch is clearly of the same blood, but does its heart beat to the same tune?The Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot is aimed at those with an "intense professional life and active leisure time."?That's a difficult balance for any company to strike. When the aim of design is balance, the risk is always compromise. The Hanhart Primus is trying to prove that it's possible to des

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Day after the blue moon...
Little over a week new and can't get enough of it...