Following up on their 2019 release of the AMADEE-18, Fortis has built a new Official Cosmonauts Chronograph watch in collaboration with the Austrian Space Forum?s AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation mission underway in Israel. The new watch, called the AMADEE-20, offers a slew of features that may come in handy for the participants within the mission, and sports the mission logo at 6 o?clock. If you?re not a crew member of AMADEE-20, no worries, you can buy one, too. 

The AMADEE-20 Chronograph is the latest chapter in Fortis? surprisingly robust heritage space watches. The brand?s watches have been an official piece of equipment for Russian Cosmonauts since 1994, and are no strangers to life outside of earth?s atmosphere. The AMADEE-18 and this AMADEE-20 have a slightly different intended purpose, however, and that is aiding in humankind?s journey to Mars.
AMADEE is a program developed and managed by Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), and serves as a framework through which the tools and science that would one day be deployed on Mars can be honed and developed. Every 2 to 3 years they run simulation missions in which these tools, operational procedures, and science experiments can be put to the test in an environment that approximates the surface of Mars. AMADEE-20 is set to take place later this year in the Negev desert in southern Israel. 
Fortis has developed the AMADEE-20 Official Cosmonauts Chronograph in partnership with the Austrian Space Forum for the benefit of the t...