Bremont makes watches that not only evoke military history but also are engineered for use in military-grade conditions. We recently went hands- on with perhaps the ultimate expression of that ethos, the titanium-cased MB Savanna Edition.

?For a pilot,? British watchmaker Bremont reminds us, ?weight means everything.? With this axiom as a guide, the London-based watchmaker known for its rugged, military-influenced aviation watches has finally given its flyboy fanbase a version of the MB ? its most tortuously tested watch and one most prized by military pilots ? in a tough but lightweight titanium case.

For those unaware, the ?MB? in the watch?s name stands for ?Martin Baker,? a British aviation company founded in 1929 that today supplies more than 70 percent of the Western world?s air forces with fighter ejection-seat technology. As one of the first partners of the fledgling Bre- mont Watch Company, Martin Baker collaborated with its founders, former RAF reserve pi- lots Nick and Giles English, to produce the first MB watch in 2009. It was notable for the un- precedented battery of tests it endured before being released, including but not limited to being strapped to the wrist of a mannequin in an actual ejection-seat test. The MB Savanna, like every watch in the MB series spawned from that first model, undergoes the same gauntlet but adds several other modern upgrades as well.
As alluded to above, the MB Savanna is the first watch in the series with a case mad...