Baltic to Auction a Unique Aquascaphe Worn by Benoit Lecomte on his Three Month Swim Through the Plastic Vortex
The Plastic Vortex is the completely appropriate and disconcerting name given to the stretch of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California where it?s estimated that 80,000 tons of plastic can be found at any given time. Otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it?s not part of the ocean most would choose to swim through, but environmental activist and competitive long-distance swimmer Benoit Lecomte did just that over the summer, swimming 300 miles over the course of 3 months, for about 8 hours per day. As part of the Vortex Swim Project, a partnership with sustainable apparel maker Icebreaker, Lecomte not only swam the 300 nautical miles from Hawaii to California along one of the most polluted routes imaginable, he helped raise money and awareness around ocean pollution so that future generations can perhaps come up with a less upsetting nickname for this part of the Pacific. During the entire swim, Lecomte had a pretty special watch strapped to his wrist, which is where our interest in this unique story takes a turn.Â
Regular readers of Worn & Wound are no doubt already familiar with Baltic watches. Based in France, Baltic excels at designing and producing watches that are unapologetically vintage-inspired. Really, unless you?re a seasoned watch aficionado, you could easily encounter a Balitc in the wild and mistake it for a much older piece, but of course, they use the modern manufacturing techniques and materials you?d expect to ensure the...
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