Introducing the Archimede Outdoor 41 AntiMag
Originally known as ?trench watches? during WWI, by the 1980s, outdoorsy brands like L.L. Bean and Orvis were selling simple, rugged, time-only ?field watches? to the weekend warrior. These tough, little mil-spec tools were perfect companions for hunting, hiking, camping, and fishing. The name Outdoor 41 AntiMag blatantly tells us that this highly anti-magnetic, hardened, 41-millimeter tool watch is an unabashed civilian offering a la the 1980s.
Introducing the Archimede Outdoor 41 AntiMag.
Yet, given its impressive 80,000 A/m (1000 Gauss) anti-magnetic rating, the Outdoor 41 AntiMag is arguably part of a third-wave of the increasingly domestic utility of the field watch: a tool that?ll avoid inaccuracies introduced by the electronic devices we cling to day and night. To achieve its anti-mag performance, the Outdoor 41 houses a soft iron cage around the movement. Anti-magnetic construction.
Often a wrap-around iron Faraday cage like the one in the Outdoor 41 AntiMag will force a watch to be quite big, but the Outdoor 41 manages to be only 11 millimeters thick (and at 46.5 millimeters lug-to-lug, it should fit a wide range of wrists). This small size and excellent anti-magnetic performance is a result of lining the dial itself, the movement holder, and the watch?s case with iron that successfully redirects electromagnetism away from the movement. The SW200-1?s beefed-up cogs in the gear-train (an improvement over the base SW200) and its a-magnetic Nivaflex component...
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