“For a pilot,” British watchmaker Bremont reminds us, “weight means everything.” With this axiom as a guide, the London-based brand 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. Here’s what you should know about the MB Savanna, which touches down today as this week’s Watch to Watch.

Bremont MB Savanna

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 Bremont Watch Company, Martin Baker collaborated with its founders, former RAF reserve pilots Nick and Giles English, to produce the first MB watch in 2009. It was notable for the unprecedented 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.
The watch is the first in the MB collection with a titanium case.

As alluded to above, the MB Savanna is the first watch in the series wit...