Marathon OSAR-D Arctic Dial

A Sergeant with a Sheriff's Office Training and Development unit, wearing a Marathon OSAR-D with the arctic dial. Ten long days of overtime providing security at the State Fair. More than a hundred hours, there every hour since opening day, going through a gallon or two of water a day. Arrests for public intoxication, sex offenders and disorderly conduct, and monitoring local street gangs inside the fairgrounds. All so the fair is safe for everyone else walking around it. The watch was a gift when he made Sergeant. He had Marathon engrave the case back to mark the promotion. What is the longest stretch of overtime you have ever pulled? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

Intel Report

Marathon OSAR-D Marathon is the rare watch company whose main customer is government procurement. It has supplied watches under contract since the Second World War, built in La Chaux-de-Fonds to military specification and issued rather than marketed. The OSAR-D belongs to its search and rescue family, and this one wears the arctic dial: white for maximum contrast, a specification born from reading time against snow. The glow comes from tritium gas tubes that stay lit continuously for decades, no light charging required, because rescue work does not schedule itself around daylight. Engraving a case back to mark a promotion is exactly the kind of thing these watches were built to outlast.

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