10 MIKE HORN’S PANERAIS

“Panerai has written more history with Mike Horn,” says the famous South African adventurer (talking about himself in the third person), than any other watch associated with exploration. The five watches he has created with Panerai have been 100 metres deep in the ocean and summited several of the world’s highest peaks. They’ve kept time on the first unassisted, unsupported ski crossing of Antarctica and the first (and to date, only) crossing of the North Pole in the perpetual dark of winter. They’ve accompanied Horn on the first solo circumnavigation of the world above the Arctic Circle. One actually saved his life when he used it as a makeshift rock-climbing piton during an expedition up Broad Peak (at 8,051 metres above sea level, the world’s 12th-highest mountain). “No watch has a history like that,” Horn asserts.