Suunto

As a technology and innovations leader, no other watch manufacturer has done better than Suunto. As it is, the brand name Suunto is already synonymous to an exceptional line of multi-function electronic wristwatches, groundbreaking instrument watches that can provide significantly for outdoor (and indoor) applications: compass bearings, acceleration, altitude, GPS location, task organizer, heartbeat and calorie usage – it isn’t difficult to imagine the occasions where these features become significantly practical.

Suunto’s history is as true. In 1936, the founder Tuomas Vohlonen completed the first liquid filled compass, and the rest of the world would then feel the importance of this engineering feat. During this era World War 2 was still taking effect, and the participating Finnish military needed direction setting especially on countries that’s full of snow, ice or else dense coniferous forests. Tuomas Vohlonen’s liquid filled compass served as their primary means of direction setting, a significant piece in history that would also soon after become the general direction which Suunto would follow for the next 70 years of instrument watch making.

Diving In And Out Into The Water

One of the most lauded Suunto products is their dive computer, an area where Suunto is the world leader. Ingenuity taking effect, by 1960 Suunto’s technicians became aware of the fact that strapping compasses when taking a dive allowed direction setting. This proves significant, as direction is very hard to obtain in underwater environments. In 1970, Suunto crafted a line of dedicated diving devices, which not only provide directions but also calculates depth. Dive computers was born, and the world began to experience a dramatic decline of diving accidents ever since.

The newest Suunto watches for deep water diving is the Suunto D9. This wristwatch incorporates decades of watch technology with equivalent decades of innovations in diving instrument technology. Digital compass, wireless tank data reception, and depth indicator as well as timekeeping make the Suunto D9 an essential instrument for diving.

The Heart Monitor

Straight from the water Suunto made a huge jump back to land, with several pioneering technologies. When heart rate information became available, Suunto was first to incorporate the detail into their instrument watches – yet another remarkable feat. Today, health awareness gained an upper notch with Suunto, a watch that can tell what is occurring in your body at a given moment.
The Suunto Running is an instrument watch that gives essential information, such as heart rate and physiological data. Attached on your wrist, the Suunto Running tells the heartbeat speed. Inputting some data would also allow you to adjust the training effect, the speed and distance of your running, the pace and automatic lap times, all these in your wrist.

Other Suunto products also exist with more or less aspects. There is the Suunto t1 and Suunto t2 that works like a personal trainer the Suunto t4 that keeps in touch with your changing physiology and makes workout recommendations – much like a wristwatch coach, and the Suunto Duathlon, for those serious athletes that requires the most comprehensive data in training.

The Sound Of The Whir

One of the newest innovations, some designs of Suunto watches allows data on aspects such as position, orientation, speed, acceleration, impact, and rotation. Guess where this can become handy? Yes, in golf, on and off the tee. Calculating speed, acceleration and impact is vital in successful drives, and so do position and orientation for accuracy. Suunto Golf is the next level for golf watches.

The Suunto watches you would see today can never be called the ingenuity of one man, one certain Tuomas Vohlonen, but of several tireless Suunto professionals who toil to create the best in instrument watches. The man, Tuomas Vohlonen, should be given credit for setting forth the dream of being the innovative leader of instrument watches, and the rest of the credit should be given to the rest of Suunto.