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I just happened to be watching a TV show called Man vs. Wild last night. For those of you in the know, the show portrays an individual named Bear Grylls, apparently ex-British Special forces, demonstrating how to survive in some of the World’s most testing environments. Last night for example Grylls was dumped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where he had to paddle to land; find food and water i.e. survive with nothing but a knife before building a raft and casting off into the Pacific Ocean to hopefully be rescued. No doubt the show is a demonstration of ‘real life’ – there is a camera crew there afterall however it is entertaining and informative if nothing else.

Most interesting for me was that Bear was wearing a Breitling Emergency (which has been mentioned in the Breitlingsource blog).

It was great to see the Emergency in action. We all obviously love our individual Breitling model(s) and to see one in action - in the sand, the sea, up a coconut tree, building a raft - being bumped around in the normal course of life and flourishing was great; what a plug for the brand and model. The emergency is after-all a tool watch and what better place to see it in action but the extremes for where it was built.

My watch certainly doesn’t get used in the situations it is capable of operating in but that’s okay, I wear it for pleasure and appreciate its function. I don’t know if anyone else has experienced the same appreciation; I just found it pretty cool

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"Ingrid Bergman"

Yep, it's a perfect watch for Bear. He wears some others too, he doesn't take it easy on them!

Mind you, at one point last night it looked like he might have been better off with a shark repellent.

I've just been doing some searching and it appears quite a few people have already made mention of how tough these watches are adn how tough Bear is with them.

I know - how crazy was it when those Tiger Sharks were bumping against his raft. Wouldn't take much to knock that thing over. TV crew or not, that looked pretty real to me. He appeared to nearly dive onto one of them prior to them nosing his raft

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"Ingrid Bergman"

OK, I'm sure this has come up before, but isn't the emergency WR 30m/3bars(same as navitimers). That would imply splash resistant only. Bit silly for a watch like this. Should be on a 200m+WR at least. All manufacturers downplay their WR anyway, but I just find it interesting that there are many threads on Navis WR(or lack thereof) but not Emergencys.
Cheers

I totally agree. The watch was certainly exposed to some water in that show and seemed to survive. A very valid point - 200m at the minimum would seem logical.

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"Ingrid Bergman"

Good point davo, for some reason I always thought the Emergency was more than 30m.

It is for this reason and this reason alone I have not bought an emergency. I believe the Mission has greater water resistance (100m?), but just doesn't have the same appeal for me.

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I agree 100% : the mission has always been imho a more "soft" version of the real thing and it just does not have that tool-look. Strange that Breitling gives that one 100m and the emergency only "splashproof"... I've seen Mr. Grylls do things with that watch on his wrist that overstate the word splashproof a lot. Diving into a waterfall or jumping out of an helicopter straight into a river, crawling in a muddy swamp, etc... that's a lot of splash

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I think its much like Davo said earlier, WR is always played down a bit by manufacturers. But thats just not assurance enough for me!

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Hi guys

I always take my Emergency on holiday. And I always keep it on while swimming, playing pool volleyball etc etc.

My B1 has been diving with me, ok I forgot to take it off, but we were at 18m for 35mins and it never complained afterwards. This was after a non Breitling battery change too.

So relax a little on the pro range and worrying about "Splashproof" They are very capable of standing up too a dunk or two, just don't use the crown or pushers.

As for my Navitimers....I don't even was up wearing them.

Davey

I guess this means i'm on the hunt for a yellow faced E then!

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May still be available.
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I actually don't mind the Mission although I agree it does have less of a tool look than the E. I agree also on how strange it is that there are differences in waterproofing between the two watches

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"Ingrid Bergman"

The Mission has a traditional screw down crown, while the regular E has a multifunction crown that controls all of the features on the digital displays. Thats the reason for such a difference in WR.

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-RJ

so whats the verdict, cane we go swimming with our E on i havent yet but hate taking it of when on vacation.

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