By now you’ve probably heard of Felix Baumgartner, he’s some dude that did something on October 14, 2012, click here. If you clicked that, you’ll see Chad’s post on the event and how awesome it is/was etc but the first thing I noticed when I was watching the live feed was the word “Zenith” on the capsule. So I was kind of distracted by what kind of a watch he was wearing and the answer is the Zenith El Primero Stratos.
With his Stratos jump, Felix Baumgartner broke a few records such as the highest jump (128,100 feet or 39,045 meters) in a helium balloon, first person to go Mach speed without a vehicle (Mach 1.24 or 833.9 miles per hour), and last but not least (although this record belongs to the watch), he wore a watch that traveled at 833.9 mph. This jump makes the Zenith El Primero Stratos the first watch to break Mach speed without the use of an engine.
The watch, we’ll call it the “Felix Baumgartner watch” is actually a standard Zenith Stratos Flyback with a solid case-back instead of the see-through case. The special case-back features an engraving of Felix’s head in a helmet and the words around the edges “First watch to break the speed of sound – Mach 1.1” “Learn to love what you have been taught to fear”.
