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replica audemars piguet 15202stoo0944st03 mens watch experience with Ball Watch team, they are specialist in watch. We put our knowledge together to create the best pieces for the divers and the adventurers. I also collaborate with the design and the functions.JHWhich Ball watch is your favorite?GNMy favorite one is the last diver watch "World Time" we made together. I love everything in this watchdesign, size, function. As I am traveling a lot, a world timer is what I need.JHWhich Ball watch were you wearing when you shot the Dean's Blue Hole video?GNI was wearing my limited edition "Engineer Master II Diver ".JHHas a watch ever exploded when you were diving really deep?GNIt never happened! JHWhat watch does your girlfriend wear?GNMy girlfriend is wearing also the limited edition. The size is good for mens and womens.JHDo you wear a new watch each time you dive?GNNo, I am like a maniac. When I love a watch, I just wear it all the time, on land or underwater.JHWhat's the deepest free-dive you've ever done?GNMy personal best is -115m with my monofin. In this discipline, the purest in freediving, you swim down to the bottom and you swim back to the succes only with your own power. I made this dive in April, at Deans Blue Hole, same place we made the base jumping video. I was competing in the morning and I was shooting for the movie in the afternoon!JHSo how long can you really hold your breath?GNSeven minutes, 42 seconds.JHDo you have a dream free-dive?GNYes, I want to dive under the iceberg in Antartica or Artic, in the perfect clear water.JHAny new free-dive adventures planned for the near future?GNI
replica audemars piguet 15202stoo0944st03 mens watch will have some more competitions, especially the world championship by team in Okinawa, Japan (June 30, 2010). Then I have several project for new film project around the world.JHThank you for the interview, and good luck at the world championships.GNCheers.We would like to thank Guillaume Néry for granting us this interview. We hope you enjoyed reading about real watches involved in real world experiences. Look for more interviews with watch industry trend-setters in the future!The AIDA Freedive World Team Championships are in Okinawa, Japan starting June 30th, 2010.
Last week our buddies over at Gizmodo featured an incredible video created by Guillaume Néry and his girlfriend, Julie Gautier. The video was of Nérys freedive into Deans Blue Hole, an underwater sinkhole descending 202 metres (663 feet) into Bahamian waters. For those who haven't seen the video, we highly recommend you watch it before reading on:After seeing this incredible clip, and noticing both his watch and the sponsor on his wetsuit, we had to find out more. It turns out, Guillaume has a Ball watch sponsorship and we thought it would be an excellent opportunity to
replica audemars piguet 15202stoo0944st03 mens watch profile a terrific athlete, as well as a watch brand weve profiled only once before. So we reached out to our French freediving friend, Guillaume, and were able to wrangle an exclusive interview with the world champion freediver and ambassador for Ball watch. Below are insights from a man who relies on his watch not only for fashion, but for survival:JHHow old were you when you first got into free-diving, and why?GNI started freediving when I was 14. First it was a game with my friend. We tried to challenge ourself to test who could hold his breath the longest. I lost and I decided to train home in my bed. I became better and decided to try in the sea as I was living in Nice by the Med sea. And of course, it was much more fun! I felt like an explorer. It was so exciting to explore the unknown. I fell in love with freediving and decided that I was going to dedicate my life to it.JHHow did you and Ball watch come together to form a partnership?GNBall watch just opened the European market and was looking for a new ambassador. I was
replica audemars piguet 15202stoo0944st03 mens watch preparing a new world record attempt and they decided to follow me. We realized that we had the same philosophy and the same passionthe passion of exploration. JHAre you involved in any way in the research and design aspect of Ball's diving watches?GNI am wearing a Ball Watch in my everyday life, during training, outdoor and underwater. I am like a tester and I take the watch with me to the limits.