The Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) plays a vital role in supporting wildlife protection across one of Africa’s most iconic conservation landscapes. At the heart of this work is GKEPF’s Protection pillar, which brings together reserve partners to strengthen anti-poaching efforts through coordinated operations, shared intelligence, and innovative tools and technologies. All efforts are […]
Draken is excited to be partnering with Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) with the release of the 2025 Kruger. 5% of profits from the sale of each Kruger watch will go to GKEPF to fund ground activities, such as monitoring and tagging of rhino, dehorning, snare removal operations and relocations, as well as air […]
In the last post about the Kruger V2, I talked about the dimensions, the materials, and the bezel. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback. There is clearly a lot of love for the Kruger. I’ve come to a few decisions on those topics. For the dimensions, it seems like most of you love the size […]
For those of you who don’t know, Kruger was the titanium chronograph we launched in 2022. It had a mecha-quartz movement (i.e. battery powered), with a mechanical chronograph module. The Kruger received excellent reviews and is still one of our most requested models, so we are dying to bring it back and make some improvements […]
It’s been a while since I shared some info on the Kruger, so in this post, I would like to share a bit about the final dial design, and a few tweaks we’ve made along the way. So, for starters here is the line up! We wanted to keep it simple and utilitarian for this […]
When I started Draken 5 years ago, I set out to create a brand of watches that would be durable, reliable and unique. Our first watch – the Tugela – drew inspiration from the rugged terrain of the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa. Since then the brand has continuously pushed the envelope with unique designs and features, most […]
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working hard on the design of the Kruger pilot chronograph. Design is a part of this job I absolutely love, so it wasn’t that hard to find the motivation to work till 12AM most nights. Chronograph design is particularly challenging. Getting all the elements to fit […]