Military watches

[eveled]

Anyone have any military watches to share?

Here are mine. I don’t know much about them. I think the hands on the Elgin are wrong

 

[eveled]

The backs.

 

[1911bphil]

I wore a Seiko dive watch that I bought in the ships store. It's the only watch I have owned that survived the punishment I gave it. I wore it about 15 years before it died.

 

[ohen cepel]

If you still have that Seiko it would be worth it to have a pro shop look at it. I bought one back in 85 and it is still going, been serviced many times over the decades, but still going.

 

[1911bphil]

If you still have that Seiko it would be worth it to have a pro shop look at it. I bought one back in 85 and it is still going, been serviced many times over the decades, but still going.

I wish I had known that 20 years ago. I threw it away after it died on me. Live and learn.

 

[Ruari]

CWC (Cabot Watch Company) G10 watch. British issue. Older version, with raised, domed glass.

 

[Piso Mojado]

This Timex is their reissue of the Ingersoll Midget, a WW1 trench watch manufactured by Waterbury Clock Co. Over the years, Waterbury became US Time which became Timex. So if they want to reissue, they're entitled and I don't need to call it an "homage." The cream colored dial is correct for military watches of this period, but not for this particular model which had a black dial.

Note the wire lugs brazed onto a woman's pocket watch case. Wristwatches were new tech in the Great War.



Black second hand doesn't work well with the black dial.

 

[willisoften]

More British Military watches: Left is the hand wound W10 from 1982 which I bought at at a surplus auction with one of my first pay-packets. It cant have cost much when I was getting £12 quid a week.
Top: early G10 by Precista - apparently known as the fat boy because its pretty chunky, often claimed as Falkland War issued to increas percieved value,
but I picked this up in Jordan.
Left 1989 G10 came from clearing out my deceased uncles fishing tackle. ?
Bottom: I bought the diver in 2014 brand new - I was living on a boat as a boat minder.
The two older Quartz watches are perfect but the divers second hand only hits the markers half the time.
Annoying. The markers it does hit are completely unpredictable.

 

[Ruari]

More British Military watches: Left is the hand wound W10 from 1982 which I bought at at a surplus auction with one of my first pay-packets. It cant have cost much when I was getting £12 quid a week.
Top: early G10 by Precista - apparently known as the fat boy because its pretty chunky, often claimed as Falkland War issued to increas percieved value,
but I picked this up in Jordan.
Left 1989 G10 came from clearing out my deceased uncles fishing tackle. ?
Bottom: I bought the diver in 2014 brand new - I was living on a boat as a boat minder.
The two older Quartz watches are perfect but the divers second hand only hits the markers half the time.
Annoying. The markers it does hit are completely unpredictable.

Sadly the picture is not displaying (not sure if anyone else can see it?)

 

[eveled]

W willisoften I can’t see them either. I gave you a like, because they sound interesting.

Piso Mojado that ladies pocket watch conversion is really neat.

Ruari nice G10!

O ohen cepel are you talking about a quartz Seiko diver? I bought one new in 1984 when I went to scuba school. I never heard of servicing a quartz watch. There must have been a mechanical model too.

 

[willisoften]

Hope you have a picture now, the larger version just wont display. Working for me because I am logged in to both sites.

 

[eveled]

Yes I see them now. Fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Piso Mojado]

Pulsar PS9045X1

Steel grey second hand on a black dial watch. WTF, Seiko! Polish it, paint it red, or paint it yellow. It's not rocket science!

In 2001, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) requested bids to replace the CWC as general service watch for the British armed forces. Seiko's Pulsar was selected for a quartz field watch with fixed bars, Luminova III, a black dial and date window at 3 o'clock. Its NATO Stock Number (NSN) is 66-45-6052627.

The Pulsar "G10" watch (G1098, or G10 for short, is the MOD paperwork to requisition things like watches and straps from supplies) was not a success. Seiko used Chinese assembly to submit a lowball bid, and Pulsar had quality control problems with this contract. Crystals popped out, crowns fell off, MOD went back to CWC and never bought Seiko again. An that is a shame, because Seiko's 7A28 RAF Gen 1 Chronograph (1984) was a military classic and a classic in watch design.

Seiko produced two civilian market Pulsar watches very similar to their G10 model for 1⁄3 CWC's price. Hence their attraction to military collectors. Both were properly assembled to Seiko's usual quality control standard, and both had little dumb ass design errors which spoiled them for military collectors: Pulsar PXH035 (which you can read about here

https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/pulsar-g10-vs-pulsar-pxh035.558818/

and my watch, Pulsar PS9045X1. Both are gone long gone like a turkey through the corn.

Back when Prince Harry had just returned from military service, he was photographed at a royal wedding wearing his Pulsar G10 watch. Prince Philip spoke to him afterwards about the importance of proper dress and gave him a Rolex Explorer II. Nice catch, Harry!



No damn it, that's a Breitling Unit watch. A Breitling Aerospace Avantage with a customized dial was available for purchase by Apache pilots with combat deployments. Harry qualified as an Apache helicopter commander in 2013 and did a five month tour in Afghanistan as co-pilot/gunner.



Here's the Pulsar G10, couldn't find the wedding photo.