Adventurer-Survivalist Bear Grylls has the Survival Air Series GMT added to his Luminox Survival collection

Adventurer-Survivalist Bear Grylls has the Survival Air Series GMT added to his Luminox Survival collection

BEST KNOWN FOR his survival adventures and exploits, and for putting celebrities in hostile natural environments, Bear Grylls now has a new variant added to his namesake collection: the Luminox Bear Grylls Survival Air Series GMT watch.

Featuring a world time GMT complication on a quartz calibre, the Survival Air GMT shows all 24 time zones. But you won’t see typical capital cities on its rotatable bezel. Instead what you’ll find are the homes of elite special forces based around the world.

Matched with a steel Milanese bracelet, the Carbonox bi-directional bezel with matching black dial makes the orange-tipped GMT hand, 24 hours indicators, minute rails and hour indices especially striking. Accompanying the high-efficiency time instrument is an orange screw-down rubber crown for a better grip, extending Grylls’ favourite colour across the logo and his “never give up” slogan.

It’s quite a beefy watch: officially 46mmwide, but with the crown, it goes up to about 50mm-wide. With a 13mm case thickness, it helps that there’s some sophistication to the finish with a combination of brushed and polished surfaces. Otherwise a timepiece like the Survival Air Series GMT will walk a line of overt masculinity while looking strangely out-of-place in anything but combat fatigues. Instead, what you get is a rugged, yet goes-with-your-smartcasual timepiece with a water resistance of 200 metres.

It’s an overall fantastic holiday watch and should you happen to be in a Taken situation, it’s a watch that puts you in good stead while you take out the baddies in Paris, Liam Neeson-style.