We use vegan straps made from a wide range of materials, including textile from recycled plastic bottles rubber, as well as plant-based materials such as cork or grape leather. And while the Withings Activité delivered fitness tracking features in a Swiss made watch long before Mondaine, the latter has the benefit of having an existing winning design, and the difference shows. Choosing the Helvetica® font as a muse, with its quintessentially Swiss values and style, has enabled the creation of a time-tested yet hamonious watch collection.

In 1943, Swiss engineer, Hans Hilfiger, while working for the Swiss Railway Station decides to design a clock that will synchronize the departure time for all of the trains coming and leaving in Zurich’s main station. The watch bezel is a clean affair, with a flat top and angular sides that remind me of a Grand Seiko more than anything out of Switzerland. The Mondaine Helvetica 1 Smartwatch feels absolutely amazing; the leather-straps has a suede-like texture to it making it feel great on the skin and the stainless-steel case has such a good weight to it your wrist won't feel like the watch is weighing you down. That's probably because of the tracking tech that's built in – Mondaine hasn't taken it upon itself to do the recording all by itself; it's all handled by MotionX – a platform from Silicon Valley based company Fullpower, which has jumped into bed with three Swiss watchmakers to do their smart stuff. To a watch guy, the design and construction of the Mondaine Helvetica is more important than the activity monitor technology that lurks inside.If you’re interested in reading about it as a watch in detail, I recommend that you head over to Grail Watch and read my post there, How Good Is the Mondaine Helvetica Smart Watch? With our successful track record, we continuously reduce our ecological footprint, step by step, being one of the first watch companies in the world to be comprehensively CO2 neutral (scopes 1,2 and 3 of the Greenhouse Gas protocol GHG) for the first time already in 2020. Most will have to enable by hand a high-performance configuration including wide channels and 5 GHz operation. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.

Helvetica is the Latin name for Switzerland, and is inspired wholly in its design and aesthetic by the font, including the lugs of the case matching the number 1. Mondaine watches are inherently wearable and the MotionX tech packed inside the company’s first connected timepiece hasn’t altered that fact. It uses the horological smartwatch platform, power MotionX, which manages the bi-directional communication between the watch and whichever device, be it phone or tablet, it is connected to via the downloaded app. Other MMT watches have a crown-style button, but Mondaine goes with form-follows-function with a solid, clear button.They decide to follow their entrepreneurial instinct, thus propelling the transition of the famous SBB Railway clock from station clock to wristwatch. I reviewed the Helvetica watches last May, and found them to be genuinely attractive and interesting watches, so I was excited to see how the tech mixed in.