Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, which marked the beginning of the establishment of a permanent human presence in Antarctica (as well as the beginning, unsurprisingly, of an ad campaign from Nivada touting its presence on the expeditions). The original Antarctic watch went to the South Pole as part of the U.S. These are the Chronomaster Aviator Sea Diver, which can be had in either a hand-wound or automatic model, and the Antarctic, which was originally developed in conjunction with the International Geophysical Year (the same "year of exploration" for which the Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic was made) in 1958. In partnership with Remi Chabrat, the owner of a private label Swiss watch firm known as the Montrichard Group, plans were made to re-launch Nivada with watches based on two vintage models.
1985, and most recently back in 2018 when he launched a couple of very attractive automatic chronographs with Seiko movements. The genius loci in Switzerland for the brand is none other than Guillaume Laidet, whom we last encountered here at HODINKEE as the founder of the eponymous brand William L.
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