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Key to ensuring such functionality when developing these timepieces is our
cooperation with experts in the respective fields, i.e. those actually using and
relying on the high performance of the timepieces out in the field. Quite often
these experts are faced with critical situations, where minutes and seconds
become a matter of life and death – both their own and other people’s. It is these
users and even more so the respective conditions in which they operate that define
and determine form and functionality. Many questions arise in the beginning: How
can we better protect the watches? What will be required of the watch in extreme
situations? What must it be able to withstand? Which functions are particularly
important for this particular mission? Consequently, no two mission timers are the
same – especially given the fact that each mission timer is equipped with functions
relevant to the demands of its specific mission. Identical construction and design
features are apparent, however. One general principle applies to them all: focus
on the key essentials in terms of outstanding readability and rapid time-recording.
In addition to the anniversary model EZM 1.1, the EZM 12 is the latest member of
our family of mission timers and another successful example of how form follows
function. The EZM 12 is a precise instrument designed for paramedics, which allows
them to keep an eye on critical times such as the ’platinum ten minutes’ (a critical
patient should be stabilised and receive initial treatment within the first ten minutes)
and the ’golden hour’ (a patient should arrive at hospital within an hour of an
accident).
Die Soldaten im Kommando
Spezialkräfte der Marine
(KSM) tragen im Einsatz den
Einsatzzeitmesser 2B (UX S) in
der nicht frei verkäuflichen
Version „UX S (EZM 2B) Kampf-
schwimmer”.
The soldiers in Germany’s
commando frogman force
KSM (Kommando Spezialkräfte
der Marine) wear the ’UX S
Combat Swimmer (EZM 2B)’
version of the 2B (UX S) mission
timer, which is not available
for retail.
