Mariner - Eterna Kon-Tiki Archived For as long as Rolex

For as long as Rolex continues to sell watches

a true testament to its functional and aesthetic perfection

While many military watches included 24-hour time by supplementing the dial or bezel with additional numerals (adding a 13 at one o'clock

both the 500 and 1000 models have a 60 minute timing totalizer with flyback function built into the movement

The 1000 model we have here is indeed a bit of righteous overkill

Mariner - Eterna Kon-Tiki Archived For as long as RolexAfter 101 grueling days and 4,300 nautical miles, Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sailed their rickety wooden craft into a reef on the shores of Raroia, one of the Tuamotu Islands, completing one of the most historic and controversial crossings of the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnographer, botanist and zoologist, devised the voyage in order to prove his hypothesis that the South Pacific was populated from east to west, contrary to the popular