Pilot’s Navigator Government Desert Tan

The brand Marathon might be new to some, but not for Canadians, Americans, and especially military watch fanatics like us. The moniker is better known to watch collectors be among the few that, until today, officially offers no-frills timepieces to the military. Those regimes include the United States and Canadian army since circa 70 years ago.

Let’s dive a little deeper. The company that was to become Marathon Watch was founded in 1904 as Weinsturm Watch, later to be named Wein Brothers. In 1939, Morris Wein founded Marathon Watch, supplying fine precision timepieces throughout North America. Since 1941, Marathon has been manufacturing timing instruments for the Allied Forces, and today the fourth generation of the family continues the tradition with a wide range of tools measuring time, temperature, and distance. Marathon watches combine military durability with Swiss engineering and craftsmanship to ensure the highest level of quality and precision. All these traits unveiled on their take of the 1960s MIL-PRF-46374G military watch- the Marathon Pilot’s Navigator Government Desert Tan Ref. WW194013-S-DT-B that we are going to introduce today.

The Pilot Navigator started from a request from Kelley Air Force Base in the US. In 1986, Texan’s Air Force base needed watches that could endure extreme changes in pressure when used at high altitudes, while remaining legible and accurate. Therefore, Marathon manufactured this watch created to meet those demands. The Pilot’s Navigator mends for pilots and paratroopers during a mission, for instance, been issued to those troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for their tasks.