Born from an idea following a skiing accident in 1996 in which he suffered a broken back, Jorn Werdelin partnered with his childhood friend Morten Linde in 2002 to launch the brand Linde Werdelin. The idea was to create a high-end sports watch that could be paired with digital instruments to provide information about skiing or diving. Following 4 years of research and development, they released their first watch in 2006. Since then, the brand has created tool watches for world-leading climbers, divers, and all other manner of sports people and explorers. Offered here as a window into that world we have the Linde Werdelin Oktopus Frogman, a watch that commissioned specifically by the Danish Military (Conventus Ranæ) for their Frømandskorpset (the Danish Frogman Corps) with its brighter lume aiding in their night-time operations, which the still-commissioned watches are still used for. Maintaining the brand’s unique tonneau-shaped case, exposed screw bezel and integrated rubber strap, the Oktopus Frogmen utilizes a titanium case with a black ceramic bezel to offer optimum performance. Offered as part of the 140 to 150 pieces that were commissioned in 2014, this example was decommissioned and refurbished by the brand in 2023, with its individual number removed and replaced with the number 7, marking it as the 7th decommissioned example.