If you?re on a rescue boat in the middle of a freezing North Sea storm in February, you will not be worrying about your watch. With foam-topped waves of around 30 meters high breaking over your boat, remaining afloat and staying alive is a bit more pressing. If your mission is to be part of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service?s (DGzRS) team of 800 volunteers, you?ll be even more concerned with making sure your crewmates and the people you?re rescuing do too. 
This is the environment that the Nautische Instrumente Mühle-Glashütte S.A.R Rescue Timer was designed to thrive in. Back in the early 2000s, Mühle-Glashütte began talking to the people who crewed and coxed the DGzRS?s rescue boats, asking them what they wanted from a watch. In February 2002, the firm delivered the first watches and they took to sea almost immediately. Winter is a busy time in the North Sea rescue business, after all.
Clearly, unless you make a habit of hanging out in hostile sea environments, you don?t need an S.A.R Rescue timer. But a watch that shrugs off waves the size of a building should be able to take on most things you?ll throw at it, even if the nearest thing to foam in your day is on your morning latte. There?s something reassuring about owning a watch that you know will take that sort of beating. 
Over those twenty years since 2002 (and with more than 10,000 watches sold), the S.A.R has proven itself on countless rescue missions so Mu?hle-Glashu?tte has decided to ...