Made for Climbing & Scrambling ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Every climbing or scrambling move puts your hand and wrist in direct contact with rock. On a grade 1-2 scramble, that contact runs continuously for thirty minutes or several hours. The watch on your leading wrist takes it on nearly every move.
Unlike hiking, this is structural, not incidental. Testing a hold. Bracing the watch side against rock on a traverse. Handholds catching the bezel directly. Across a full day, contact adds up faster than weeks of ordinary use. Our toughness checklist covers what makes a watch properly tough: case, crystal, water resistance and movement together. That’s rock contact durability in practice: an impact resistant watch, not an instrumented one.
Reading the Time in the Dark: Pre-Dawn Starts and Failing Light
A pre-dawn alpine start is routine for serious mountain days, Scottish winter climbing especially. Reading the time in a bothy, a tent at high camp, or during a descent in failing light, without producing any light of your own, is exactly what tritium illumination is for.
The most reliable form of illumination you can have on a wristwatch. Always on, completely self-powered, providing a constant glow in low light and darkness for over 20 years!
Read our full article and check out our range of watches,
ready for anything!
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Every climbing or scrambling move puts your hand and wrist in direct contact with rock. On a grade 1-2 scramble, that contact runs continuously for thirty minutes or several hours. The watch on your leading wrist takes it on nearly every move.
Unlike hiking, this is structural, not incidental. Testing a hold. Bracing the watch side against rock on a traverse. Handholds catching the bezel directly. Across a full day, contact adds up faster than weeks of ordinary use. Our toughness checklist covers what makes a watch properly tough: case, crystal, water resistance and movement together. That’s rock contact durability in practice: an impact resistant watch, not an instrumented one.
Reading the Time in the Dark:
Pre-Dawn Starts and Failing Light
A pre-dawn alpine start is routine for serious mountain days, Scottish winter climbing especially. Reading the time in a bothy, a tent at high camp, or during a descent in failing light, without producing any light of your own, is exactly what tritium illumination is for.
The most reliable form of illumination you can have on a wristwatch. Always on, completely self-powered, providing a constant glow in low light and darkness for over 20 years!
Read our full article and check out our range of watches, ready for anything!
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NITE Watches Unit 14 Silver Business Park,
Airfield Way, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 3TA
United Kingdom
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