Teutonic and Tough: Spotlighting 4 No-Nonsense German Sports Watches
If you are partial to watches with long, hard-to-pronouce names, are encrusted with glittery jewels, feature intricate filigree finishes, and perhaps include tourbillons whirling away inside of them, you can just move right along; there is nothing for you to see here.
If you are still with me, then feast your eyes on these four über-tough German-made tool watches and admire the precision engineering that goes into each one of them. (Please note much of the content has been compiled from earlier articles by different authors which are linked at the end)
SINN U2 S
Sinn doesn?t make ?timepieces,? it makes ?einsatzmesser,? or ?mission timers,? which should help you understand why the Frankfurt-based brand belongs on this list. The U2 S is a dive watch made of German submarine steel, the same alloy that?s used on the outer hull of submarines. In its final production stage, this steel is ?Tegimented,? i.e., hardened using Sinn?s special engineering process, and coated with a layer of hard black material. The resulting surface is nearly as hard as sapphire. (For comparison, the 316L steel used for watch cases has a hardness of 220 Vickers; submarine steel is at least 300 Vickers; hardened submarine steel is 1,500 Vickers; and the extra hard coating brings the hardness up to 2,000 Vickers, i.e., the same hardness as sapphire.) Sinn guarantees that this watch will continue to work at temperatures between -49 and +176 degrees F. This wide range is achieved by using synthetic oil in...
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