Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.
Issue 8 - 1950s British Army (British Soldier)
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In the early 1940s the British Ministry of Defence drew up new specifications for a replacement for the British Army Trade Pattern watch (ATP), the new watch would be called the Waterproof Wrist Watch or WWW.
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12 Swiss manufacturers supplied these watches including Longines, Omega, IWC and Jeager Le Coultre.
There were such large numbers purchased that they continued to be issued from 1945 right through until the early 1990s
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Case
Polished 37mm, 39.5mm with crown, 44.4mm lug to lug, 8.4mm deep.
Case back engraved with "1950s British Army". 31mm flat glass.
Dial
Black dial with white minute markers and biege Hour marks on the outside ring, White arabic Numerals.
Printed on, non functional seconds dial and hand at 6 o'clock
Chrome and White straight hours and minutes hands with triangular point.
Lume on minute and hour hands only.
Strap
Strap
18mm black PU leather strap, polished Buckle, aprox 175-220mm fitting
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NB:The inclusion of both the centre sweep hand and fake seconds dial caused a huge backlash against the whole collection, For subscribers the watch was packaged along with the RNAS pocket watch, which actually featured a functioning sub dial using a similarly sized movement, so the inclusion of a working sub dial would not have been difficult to achieve.
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Eaglemoss made statements assuring that no further fake dials would be produced. which has been the case to date but the reputation of the collection has suffered.
Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.
Issue 9 - 1940s Japanese Airman
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Produced for the Japanese Imperial Navy by the Seikosha watch company, originals are extremely rare and command high prices particularly in the Japanese market.
Japanese pilots where the elite, and the training programme rigorous and often brutal, the numbers of pilots that qualified could not keep up with the losses they suffered.
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Case
48.1mm plated and polished finish. folded detail finish around bezel. 501mm including crown, 546mm lug to lug, 9.4mm deep. 43.6mm interior aperture.
6mm grooved crown. 41.5mm flat glass.
case back engraved with “1940s Japanese Pilot".
Dial
43mm black painted dial with red seconds markers and white Arabic numbers at 5 sec/min intervals on the outside ring.
On a smaller secondary scale white markers and Yellow and White vintage style Arabic hour numerals on the inner ring
White vintage style hours and minutes hands with Breguet Pomme style point. Straight white seconds hand.
There is no luminous effect anywhere on this watch.
Standard EM Epson AL55a movement.
Strap
24mm dark tan leather, tapers slightly to a 22mm polished buckle, aprox 180-220mm fitting, note the watch lugs are small and flat on a large case, so measurements will be inaccurate on smaller size wrists.
Originally these watches were made to be worn over a thick flight suit and came on a leather strap that could wrap around a bare wrist twice over.
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Side by side with the Issue 2 German Luftwaffe watch. From the same era, and intended for the same function, the two are very similar in design and both have the B-Uhr, type-B style dial. The Japanese watch is slightly bigger overall.
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The Seikosha watch has refined the German design and given it a distinctly Japanese quality. A number of companies produce high quality reproduction versions of this watch type.
Which watch today Churchy?
Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.
Issue 12 - 1940s British Paratrooper
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The Watch described in this issue seems to be very rare. The British Army needed a water and shock resistant watch, so they had a batch of Longines movements from stock put into custom cases, The new cases were nicknamed ’Tuna Cans”, larger, and designed to be more shock resistant, they also had a screw down crown to aid water resistance. It was only issued in small numbers and later recalled due to the old Luminous paint decaying into powder and fouling the movement.
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Case
Sandblast finish "tuna can" case 36.4mm, 37.6mm with crown, 43.5mm lug to lug, 10mm deep.
Case back engraved with description of the watch. 29.8mm flat glass.
Dial
White dial with Black minute scale at outer edge, including small luminous green marks at 5 minute intervals. Black Arabic hour numerals 1 to 12 with an inner ring of Red hour marks to indicating 24 hour scale
Chrome, White filled, hours and minutes hands triangular point. Slim straight chrome seconds hand. Lume on minute and hour hands only.
Strap
18mm brown leather strap, tapers to polished 16 mm Buckle, aprox 175-215mm fitting
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Which watch today Churchy?
Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.
Issue 15 - 1950s British Air Force
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In 1953 Omega supplied a batch of Chronometer certified antimagnetic watches with radium painted dials, to the British RAF.
Known to collectors as the Omega '53, the watch had a limited production run and was recalled to have tritium dials retrofitted.
Original Omega 53s are rare, and the few remaining Radium dialled examples are even more expensive.
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Case
Polished 36mm case, 38mm with crown, 42.7mm lug to lug, 9.4mm deep.
Case back engraved with description of the watch. 29.5mm flat glass.
Dial
30.5mm Black dial with white minute marker scale with pale green markers at 5 minute intervals, White Arabic hour numerals
Chrome, green filled, straight hours and minutes hands. Slim straight chrome seconds hand.Lume on minute and hour hands only.
Strap
18mm black canvas effect strap with PU backing, narrows to polished 16 mm buckle, aprox 175-220mm fitting
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The British pilots watches a have featured a few times in the collection.
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Although based on watches from different Swiss manufacturers, these three were all produced to a specification laid down by the British military and look very similar.
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