Marathon 34mm Desert Tan General Purpose Quartz (GPQ)
Marathon 34mm Desert Tan General Purpose Quartz (GPQ)
Marathon Watch Company traces its roots to 1904, when Hersh Wein founded Weinstrum Watch. His son Morris Wein founded Marathon in Montreal in 1939, and by 1941 the brand was supplying wristwatches and timing instruments to Allied forces.
Today Marathon is headquartered in Vaughan, Canada, and assembles its watches in its own factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. It still develops and supplies timepieces under contract to the Canadian, U.S. and British governments and other Allied forces.
The range is built around three families: the Search and Rescue (SAR) dive watches, the Navigator pilot watches and the General Purpose field watches, lit with tritium gas tubes and MaraGlo luminescence.
Commonly known as the General Purpose Quartz (GPQ), these field watches are manufactured in accordance with MIL-PRF-46374G, Type II, Class 1.
Housed in a lightweight composite fibreshell case, GPQ watches are powered by a Swiss-made, 3-Jewel, high-torque quartz movement with an end-of-life (EOL) indicator that signals when the battery is nearing the end of its service life.
Case Material: Fibreshell Composite
Dial Colour: Black
Water Resistance: 3 bar (30 m / 100 ft)
Calibre: ETA High-Torque FØ6
Case Size: 34
Collection: General Purpose
SKU: WW194004DT-0803
Brand: MARATHON
Movement: Quartz
Strap: Nylon
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