Into Icy Depths for a New World Record

Ice-Cold to a World Record

No one had ever achieved what freediver Tolga Taskin has now accomplished: without additional breathing air, he descended to 74.8 meters beneath the sealed ice cover of Austria’s Weissensee. For 2 minutes 43 seconds, Taskin held his breath and had to suppress the body’s breathing reflex in the freezing cold—an extraordinary physical and mental performance, officially recognized as a Guinness World Record. During training and on the record attempt, the watch on his wrist was the Tutima Glashütte M2 Pioneer—developed for extreme challenges. Its automatic movement, Cal. Tutima 521, is protected by a 30 atm pressure-tested solid titanium case and 2 mm anti-reflective sapphire crystal—true to Tutima’s name, derived from the Latin tutus (“safe”, “protected”). A signature feature of the M2 Pioneer is its rare, elaborate complication: the central minute counter/hand, designed for improved readability. With Super-LumiNova, legibility remains reliable even in the darkness underwater.nn“We literally trembled along and are delighted to support Tolga Taskin on his breathtaking path to further records,” says Tutima Glashütte operations manager Alexander Philipp.