There is a time and place for a modern wristwatch - in the field. 

If you're out digging up Unicorn bones in the Scottish highlands, battling space aliens with adaptive camouflage in some equatorial rainforest, defending your urban keep against a raging zombie horde - whatever - chances are a modern timepiece would be a better tool for the job. It has something to do with their inherently superior water resistance, durability, accuracy, as well as their ease of replacement and all that.  We won't bore you with the practicality of it all.

Unimatic has been favorite modern brand of ours since they launched in 2015. Based in Milan, Italy, they are the brainchild of two young Italian gentleman who had a desire to construct minimalistic tool watches, built to exacting standards that have classically-industrial designs and are heavy, tough, and beautiful.

This particular Unimatic is a U1-MLB, a special-edition collaboration with Massena LAB, one of the foremost boutique brands in contemporary horology. Inspired by the Blancpain “Bund” of the 1970s that was issued to the Bundeswehr Kampfschwimmers, it features a 41.5mm stainless steel case, a sapphire crystal, an unsigned crown, a black aluminum bezel with a luminous pip, a matte black dial with matching, segmented handset, and a black rubber strap with signed, stainless steel pin buckle and clasp. In great condition throughout, it comes with all its ephemera.

This is a fantastic chance to own a limited-edition collaboration from two of the best names in modern watchmaking — don’t pass it up!