![]() ![]() G-Shocks, for example, are renowned for their rugged durability, which is presumably why Chris Hemsworth wears one in Extraction while more the doubling the Commando body-count. Picture credit: Picture credit: are, of course, other tough watches. Seiko tested it in a range of extreme temperatures from -40C up to 60C, while the watch later went on to summit Everest and survive visits to the North and South Pole. But this beefy member of Seiko’s Tuna family was also genuinely tough. Water-resistant to 150 metres with a uni-directional and screw-down crown, it was also equipped with an alarm and chronograph. In terms of all-round functionality it was a good choice for a man on a mission of mass destruction. Introduced in 1982, the Seiko H558 was one of the first analog-digital dive watches. ![]() The size was no illusion either, it measured 45mm in diameter and 46.5mm lug to lug, albeit sitting at a relatively trim 11.3mm off the wrist. This was the Seiko H558-5000, a heavyweight brute of a watch. But even on limbs of that heft, his watch was somehow proportionate. But the piece of kit that’s won an enduring legacy is attached to his wrist.Īrnie, of course, boasts arms like an anaconda that has just swallowed a pig. ![]() As he prepares to confront an entire mercenary army alone, Arnie tools up with a spectacular array of weaponry. Arnie’s character, John Matrix (which I thought was the coolest name imaginable) rows to an island to rescue his daughter from the evil clutches of a deposed South American dictator. There was once scene in particular that fascinated me. For me, Commando was the Most Exciting Thing I’d Ever Seen. But as a 10-year-old I failed to appreciated such nuances. To be fair, this film hasn’t aged particularly well with its ludicrous plot-line, extreme bodycount (Arnie single-handedly kills 81 people) and fairly overt homophobia. In the ’80s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action hero on the planet and my introduction to his barrage of blockbusters was Commando (1985). But an off-shoot of this quest for ultra-violence was that one man loomed extra-large in our collective psyche. This under-age compulsion to show how grown-up and cool we were, invariably backfired and resulted in low-level trauma – Freddie Krueger alone gave me nightmares for weeks. We were constantly scheming to try and find ways to watch heinously violent films on VHS tapes. I/trending 35705 How Arnold Schwarzenegger made the Seiko H558-5000 the ultimate tough-guy watch Luke BenedictusĪs a 10-year-old boy in the 1980s, when I wasn’t attempting to learn how to moonwalk or riding my trusty BMX, my friends and I shared a collective obsession. ![]()
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