The Registry · No. 22 of 42
Suunto
2 files in the archive carry a Suunto. Everything here comes from the people who wore them.
The files
Core militarySuunto Core military
A Navy flight nurse with the Forward Resuscitative Surgical System and Shock Trauma Platoon, at COP Shukvani overlooking Sangin, Afghanistan, 2013. Enroute care is the job of keeping the wounded alive in the back of a helicopter, and his requirement for a watch was written by that work: easily legible and no nonsense. The Suunto Core Military delivered, in his words, perfectly in all aspects, and it had already done a tour in Ramadi in 2009 before Afghanistan. His last point is the sharpest: this was before the Garmin craze, and the Core has none of the security issues of a Garmin.
Core All BlackSuunto Core All-Black
A private network specialist on contract in Southeast Asia, photographed at the table with the laptop still open beside him. On the wrist, a Suunto Core in the all black finish, an instrument built around an altimeter, a barometer and a compass rather than around a dial. The barometer watches air pressure and sounds a storm alarm when it falls away quickly, which is what put the Core on trailheads and mountainsides in the first place. The work here is client networks and IT security, not summits. The watch came along anyway, which is usually how the good ones end up on a wrist.