Marathon Watch Discount for Silvercore Club Members

If you have been researching Marathon Watch, you already know what you are looking at. A Marathon is not an impulse buy. It is a Swiss-made, Canadian-designed tool watch built to military and SAR specifications, and you decide once and live with it for the next thirty years.

A Silvercore Club membership is $59 CAD per year. A 10% discount on a single Marathon, plus a free glow-in-the-dark clip compass, pays for the Club membership several times over on the first order alone.

That is the headline. Here is the rest of it.

What Silvercore Club members get from Marathon Watch

Marathon Watch Company is the Canadian-headquartered, Swiss-manufactured watchmaker that has been supplying timing instruments to Allied Forces since 1941. They build to Canadian Government specifications for professional Search and Rescue use, and their watches remain standard kit for members of both the Canadian and U.S. militaries.

Silvercore Club members get two stacking benefits on marathonwatch.com:

10% off any order

Use your Silvercore Club discount code at checkout for 10% off any Marathon Watch, accessory, or supply. Join the Silvercore Club or log in to access your discount code.

Free Glow-in-the-Dark Clip Compass on orders over $50 CAD

Marathon's clip compass is a real navigational tool, not a token freebie. It is dust and splash resistant, has a glow-in-the-dark bezel, and clips to a watch band or webbing. Silvercore Club members get one free with any Marathon order over $50 CAD, through a dedicated Silvercore Club Exclusive landing page on Marathon's website. Join the Silvercore Clubor log in to access the member link.

The math, for the people who want the math

Let's use the 46mm Arctic Edition Jumbo Day/Date Automatic (JDD) as the reference. This is the watch I wear. Current price on marathonwatch.com starts at $2,100 USD on the 3-piece rubber strap, or $2,500 USD on the stainless steel bracelet.

A 10% Silvercore Club discount on the rubber-strap JDD is $210 USD off, which is roughly $290 CAD at today's exchange rate. On the bracelet version, it is $250 USD off, roughly $345 CAD.

The Silvercore Club membership costs $59 CAD per year.

For someone who has not bought a Marathon before, the discount alone covers the membership many times over on a single watch order, and the free clip compass is on top of that. Even on Marathon's smaller and more affordable watches, the 10% discount on anything over $590 USD covers the membership.

The same math applies on any Marathon you buy: the membership pays for itself on the first order and keeps paying for itself every year you renew.

Why a Marathon is worth the discount in the first place

I have worn a Marathon 46mm Arctic JDD in the backcountry for years. Here is what it does and why I rely on it.

The watch is automatic. Self-winding from the motion of my wrist. I don't carry a charger for it, I don't think about battery life, and it keeps time on a five-day pack-in the same as it does on a day at the office. For anyone who has had a smartwatch die on day three of a trip, you'll understand why this matters.

Designed in Canada, hand-assembled in Switzerland. Marathon was founded in 1939. The watches are designed in Canada and hand-assembled in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Inside my JDD is a 26-jewel Sellita SW220 automatic movement with Incabloc shock absorber. The case is brushed 316L stainless steel. The crystal is sapphire with anti-reflective coating. The watch is rated to 30 ATM, which is 300 metres of water resistance. I'm not diving to 300 metres. I am crossing rivers, getting caught in downpours, and bashing through alder. The watch does not care.

Tritium illumination. Every hour marker and every hand carries a self-contained tritium gas tube. Tritium glows on its own, with no charging from sunlight. There is a double tritium marker at twelve o'clock and a MaraGlo pip on the bezel so I always know where the zero point sits in the dark. I can read the time in bright sun, in low light at last legal, and at three in the morning when I am checking how much sleep I have left before a stalk.

The bezel is a navigation tool. The unidirectional dive bezel on the JDD rotates counter-clockwise only and has 60 click positions, marked in 5-minute increments on the dial. For pace counting, I click the bezel one position every 60 paces (my calibrated stride for 100 metres). Twelve clicks logs one kilometre. A full rotation logs twelve kilometres. No phone out, no GPS battery drain. Combined with a compass bearing and a map, it lets me move through unfamiliar country with real precision.

The 46mm case is large. I'm a big fellow and it works well on me, but if you have a smaller wrist, Marathon makes the same SAR series in 41mm (GSAR) and 36mm (MSAR) cases on the same Swiss build philosophy. The discount applies to every Marathon they make.

If you want the longer story on why I wear a Marathon and how I use the bezel, read the full review here. If not, the short version is that this is a watch built by a serious company for serious use, and after years of carrying mine, I have nothing to fix.

What else you get with a Silvercore Club membership

The Marathon Watch discount is two benefits on a list of more than twenty. A full list of current member partner discounts is available on the Silvercore Club page.

Beyond the partner discounts, a Silvercore Club membership includes:

• $5 million CAD of third-party liability insurance covering hunting and shooting activities across North America
• RCMP-approved ATT eligibility. The Silvercore Club was the first gun club in Canada to receive official RCMP approval for issuance of Authorizations to Transport
• 100% off Silvercore's online courses (excluding Online CORE, Waterfowl 101, and Anchored Outdoors branded courses)
• Member-only Live Q&A events with industry experts
• Outpost, a private podcast feed available exclusively to Silvercore Club members
• Canada-wide and international membership. The Club serves members in every province and territory, and internationally

All of that is $59 CAD per year.

How to claim the Marathon Watch discount

1. Become a Silvercore Club member (or log in if you already are) at silvercore.ca/club.
2. Check your member account for the current Marathon Watch discount code and the Silvercore Club Exclusive compass link.
3. Shop at marathonwatch.com and add what you want to your cart.
4. Apply your code at checkout. For the free clip compass on orders over $50 CAD, use the dedicated Silvercore Club Exclusive link from your member account so the gift adds to your order automatically.

Discounts apply at the time of purchase. They are not retroactive.

The takeaway

If you are in the market for a Marathon Watch, the honest answer is that you should join the Silvercore Club before you put anything in your cart. The discount more than covers the membership the first time you use it, the free compass is a bonus, and you pick up $5 million in liability insurance, a stack of other partner discounts, and ATT eligibility on the way through.

Join the Silvercore Club →

If you want the longer story on what it is like to actually carry a Marathon in the field, read my full review of the 46mm Arctic JDD here

Travis Bader
Silvercore Outdoors