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Manufacturer: Nomadic Watches | Price: $1,265 USD
Nomadic Turas 914 Expedition Sports Watch
- Dimensions: Case – 39.1mm, Thickness – 10.2mm, Lug to Lug – 46.4mm, Lug Width – 20mm
- Total Weight: 139g (bracelet sized up for my 6¾″ wrist)
- Movement: Fully Regulated Sellita SW200-1, 28,800vph, Hackable, Self Winding, 38hr Power Reserve
- Case: Brushed & Polished 316L Stainless Steel
- Bracelet: 3-Link, Brushed & Polished 316L Stainless Steel, Solid Links, Screw Pins, MicroGlide™ Clasp
- Bezel: Fixed, Stepped Polished 316L Stainless Steel
- Crystal: Flat Sapphire, Underside Anti-Reflective Coatings
- Dial: Textured, Sword Hands, Applied Arabics & Batons, No Date
- Lume: Swiss Super-LumiNova® BGW9 Grade A
- Water Resistance: 100m / 10 ATM / 330ft
- Caseback: Screw Down, Exhibition Display, Sapphire Crystal
- Crown: 6.5mm, Screw Down, Signed
- Where to Buy: Nomadic Watches
- Warranty: 2 Years International
Nomadic Turas 914 - A Closer Look
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Nomadic Watches - A Brief History
The Turas has a textured, polar white dial that’s more than a nod to the icy terrain traversed by Shackelton and his men on their ill-fated polar expedition. Raised numerals add a subtle touch of gentlemanly luxury. Phosphorescent hands and dial markers use SuperLumiNova® to release stored light energy slowly, providing vital detail at a glance when the sun dips below the horizon. The Turas 914’s exhibition case back is a tribute to the 1914 endurance expedition. There’s a small engraving of the men’s famous life boat – the James Caird - and their struggle in pulling it across 830 icy miles. The Shackleton family’s motto is engraved on the watch back: ‘Through endurance we conquer.’ Each Turas is proudly built in Belfast, yet another connection to Irish gentry Shackleton and his right-hand-Kerry-man, Tom Crean. Precision engineered and hand-built by our skilled technicians, every Turas 914 has a screw-down case back to guarantee saltwater resistance up to 100m / 330ft."