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Mar 7, 2024 · Historic Military Diver Reissues. Author’s Picks. Best for $3,000: Longines Hydroconquest GMT. Best for $1,000: Christopher Ward C60 Trident Pro 300. Best for $500: Seiko Turtle. Best for $300: Citizen Promaster Dive Eco-Drive. Best for $50: Casio Duro. How I Chose the Best Dive Watches. The author wearing a Bremont S501 while duck hunting.
Jun 4, 2023 · The enw ProTek Official United States Marine Corps Series 1010 Dive Watch, released in 2023, with expert analysis, specs, price, and photos. Hands-On: ProTek Official United States Marine Corps Series 1010 Dive Watch | aBlogtoWatch
Mar 28, 2024 · Military-issued watches are an integral part of many heritage watch brands’ histories. Alan Seymour rounds up his favourite current combat timepieces made for civilian customers. Published: Thursday 28th March 2024. Watches. Tudor. Pelagos FXD.
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- Seikosha “Kamikaze” Watch
- Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
- Monopusher Chronographs
- Mil-W-46384 and GG-W-113
Though a small number of dedicated wristwatches were issued to the German navy in the late 19th century, it wasn’t until WWI that the men’s wristwatch saw extensive use. Soldiers began soldering on wire lugs to their pocket watches and fitting them with leather straps, freeing up both hands for other tasks. When soldiers returned home from the Grea...
Originally designed by American Lieutenant Commander Philip Van Horn Weems, the Second-Setting watch was a patented Weems invention for use in celestial navigation. In order to synch the watch with a signal emitted via radio that gave a pilot a precise time reference, Weems developed a movable bezel controlled via a secondary crown. This way, the u...
These watches date to WWII and were produced by Omega, Longines and JLC for use by RAF navigators. They received the Mk 7A (6B/159) designation and follow a spec calling for a watch with a white dial, black Arabic numerals, central seconds, non-luminous, blue steeled hands and chrome or stainless steel case. Despite seeing wartime action and many e...
Produced by Elgin, Waltham and Bulova, this 30-32mm watch was made in several different iterations to a standard called for by the US military (though versions were also issued to other Allied forces under the “6B” designation). A simple time-only watch with a black dial (though rarer white versions exist), white Arabic numerals and hands and 60-mi...
This cinematic moniker describes a group of watches from 12 different Swiss brands produced under contract to the British MoD and delivered in 1945. Though each company’s model differed slightly, the watches featured 35-38mm cases in either stainless steel or plated base metal, black dials with radium lume, mechanical movements regulated to chronom...
Perhaps the most iconic of all pilot’s watch designs, the Beobachtungs-Uhren (“observation watch”) was developed in the late 1930s as an instrument for German bomber crews, who were then preparing for war. A specification was put forth by the Luftfahrtministerium (air ministry) and answered by five companies (IWC, A. Lange & Söhne, Wempe, Lacher & ...
Seikosha, a branch of the famed Seiko company, originally produced clocks, watches and other devices, one of which is sometimes referred to as the “Kamikaze watch.” While the Seikosha division produced numerous watches during the 1930s and 1940s for the Japanese military, the “Kamikaze” watchis notable for having supposedly been issued to Kamikaze ...
Designed from the ground up in 1952, the Fifty Fathoms was born from the mind of French secret service agent Captain Bob Maloubier, MBE, who worked with the Special Operations Executive during WWII. Tasked along with Lt. Claude Riffaud of the French Navy with formulating a new, secret dive unit, Maloubier sketched his ideal dive watch and brought t...
Monopushers chronographs, which feature a single button to control start, stop and reset functions, were first produced under contract for the British MoD beginning in the late 1940s or 1950s by Lemania, Breitling, and Rodania. These watches, which were issued to RAF pilots as well sailors and submariners in the Royal Navy, feature 38.5mm stainless...
The MIL-W-46374 and the GG-W-113 are two watches developed for use by (mostly) American military personnel beginning in the 1960s and have become well-known as the timepieces often issued to G.I.s during the Vietnam War. Myriad iterations of these models have been created in the decades since their debut, to the extent that a simple eBay perusal yi...
Apr 13, 2023 · A striking piece from one of the best military watch brands, the Luminox EVO Navy Seal packs a highly legible luminescent dial and unidirectional bezel inside a hefty 44mm Polyurethane case. Of course, it’s water-resistant, getting you down to lower than 600ft beneath the surface.
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For aquatic military members, the SKX represents a trustworthy ISO-rated automatic diver’s watch in a less aggressive, more refined package which pairs well with a military uniform on the stock rubber strap or a 22mm nato, but can also easily be classed up with one the many OEM or aftermarket bracelet options.
Feb 23, 2023 · If you’re after is a watch that you don’t need to think about regardless of what your next adventure is, check out the 40mm MWC Navigator Swiss Military watch. It’s powered by an NH35A movement and is water-resistant up to 300m.
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