There are a lot of different pleasures to be found in watchmaking, but one of the best is when you find a watch that knows exactly what it wants to be. Mühle-Glashütte (or to give the company its full name, Nautische Instrumente Mühle-Glashütte) is a company that makes watches in a variety of styles, but its most iconic timepiece is probably its SAR Rescue-Timer, which was designed in collaboration with the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service. A tough, instantly readable watch with the sort of naturally achieved aesthetics that comes from real, uncompromising adherence to practical considerations, the Rescue-Timer is in its own way as much a classic of the tool-watch type as, say, the Submariner or the Mark XII, and it sets a high benchmark for other tool watches from Mühle-Glashütte. I’m happy to say the ProMare Chronograph is up to the challenge of meeting the standard set by the Rescue-Timer.
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