A nearby flight instrument company, Flytec, approached Victorinox with a suggestion for a gadget geared to mountain climbers. Flytec now supplies the knife maker with electronics for an altimeter, barometer, thermometer and clock.
For channel 4, they built a diorama containing a rain gauge, barometer, thermometer, wind gauge, andclock, pointed a videocamera at it, and launched the first weather channel.