BREMONT S2000: BREMONT AMBASSADOR ROSS EDGLEY TESTS NEW DIVING WATCH BEYOND ENDURANCE
With a strapline of being ‘Tested Beyond Endurance’ Bremont has always prided itself on working with adventurers who test these mechanical British watches to the absolute extremes and often in the harshest environments on earth.
The original S2000 model, released in 2013, is the most technical professional dive watch in the Bremont range being able to withstand depths of up to 2000m. Having been used extensively by professional divers and the military alike, the over-engineered S2000 has proved its metal and some. 2019 marks the introduction of a refreshed design for the S2000 with the release of two new distinctive red and yellow models, replacing the original.
Bremont has enlisted the help of British swimming champion Ross Edgley to put this new design through its paces. Ross is an adventurer and author most recently known for becoming the first person to make history by swimming all the way around Great Britain in 2018. After 2,000 miles and 157 days, the swim was announced as the ‘World Swim of the Year 2018’ and it became officially recognised as ‘The World’s Longest Staged Sea Swim’. As Ross is looking ahead to future challenges, adding to his already impressive roster, Bremont is excited to see the journey he will take the new S2000 on.
Bremont Co-Founder, Giles English: “The S2000 undergoes considerable in-house testing and has been engineered to truly be the definitive dive watch. We’re so excited to have Ross on board as part of the Bremont family, a great British adventurer who can corroborate that the watch lives up to expectations out in the field. Ross has some epic challenges in the pipeline and we’re thrilled to have Bremont involved, he is exactly the kind of person we aspired to have wearing, and indeed testing, our watches when we set out in 2002.”
Ross Edgley commented, “Britain has an incredible history and heritage of great explorers from Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook to the modern living legend Sir Ranulph Fiennes, but one of my favourite stories has to be Captain Matthew Webb, the first recorded person to swim the English Channel on 25 August 1875. Worth noting is many people believed the swim to be impossible because the tides were too strong and water too cold, but Captain Webb, in a woollen wetsuit and on a diet of brandy and beef broth, swam breaststroke (because “front crawl was ungentlemanly like”) and battled waves for over 20 hours to make history. For me this story just embodies what being a true British explorer is all about, since (for whatever reason) it seems adventure and exploration is engrained in our British DNA. This also served as a source of inspiration for myself when last year (trying to follow in the footsteps of my heroes) I swam 2,000-miles in 157 days to become the first person to swim around Great Britain. Which is why (for all of these reasons and more) I am so incredibly proud to partner with Bremont as they embrace that exact same ethos of being ‘fearlessly progressive’ in their own field of watch manufacturing and horology as you can quite literally see the passion engrained into every timepiece.”
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