Time Out ; Heading Up Everest? Flying Round the World? The Latest Adventure Watches Look Just As Good at Dinner Parties As They Do in the World's Most Dangerous Places

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Over the past few years sports manufacturers have tried to muscle in on the territory of classic adventure watches, creating mass- produced timepieces armed with GPS systems, pedometers and heart- rate monitors.

The problem is that the cheaper designs make you look like you are setting out for a day at the skate park, rather than to conquer Everest. It's difficult to imagine James Bond rolling up his sleeve to reveal some plastic monstrosity rather than the Omega Seamaster.

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Time Out ; Heading Up Everest? Flying Round the World? The Latest Adventure Watches Look Just As Good at Dinner Parties As They Do in the World's Most Dangerous Places

So Bond and other stylish adventurers should be grateful that traditional watchmakers have fought back and created watches such as the Master World Geographic, displaying all 24 time zones at once, but in a form that one woul...

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