Prim Expedice Lambaréné LE - A

Eight students and graduates set off on New Year’s Day in a silver Tatra they called Drobeček. They were carrying medicines to Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in Lambaréné. Six of them climbed Kilimanjaro and stood on Uhuru Peak, whose name means freedom in Swahili, on the very day Ludvík Svoboda was elected president back home. They were refused entry to Gabon, so they handed over the medicines aboard a French ship.

They had departed at the beginning of the Prague Spring. In Marseille, the morning after disembarking, dockworkers banged on their vehicle to tell them their country had been invaded. They returned to occupied Czechoslovakia, to a different home from the one they had left.

The watch commemorating that journey features a 43 mm steel case with DLC coating, water resistance of 10 ATM and the ETA 2824-2 calibre with automatic winding.

For those who know what they’re doing.