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The Inspiration behind Tool Watch Co.
I discovered this Indie brand on Instagram. It is being crowdfunded, and was started by a Danish gentleman, now out of NYC. Their first watch is called the Artic and it comes in blue and black versions both with meteorite dials.It has a Selita mechanical movement.
The Arctic pays homage to Peter Freuchen, the six-foot-seven Danish explorer, author, and anthropologist. In 1906, he abandoned studying medicine to explore the arctic, live, hunt, and travel with the Inuit for over two decades. He married an Inuit woman but lost her to the Spanish flu in 1921. During this time, he survived an attack by a polar bear and escaped an ice cave he had been frozen into during a blizzard by chiseling his way out using an improvised ice pick fashioned from his frozen feces. He lost a leg to frostbite and amputated his gangrenous toes himself. During the Second World War, he joined the Danish resistance against German occupation, aided refugees against the Nazis, earning him imprisonment and a death sentence from which he escaped. During his life, he wrote 30 books, received an Oscar, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Benjamin Franklin Society for his “service to mankind in opening new frontiers.
This message has been edited by India Whiskey Charlie on 2022-05-01 02:34:38
The Inspiration behind Tool Watch Co.
Truly, a remarkable man!
I've never heard of Freuchen either. How is it someone so extraordinary . . .
You would think....
