Anyone interested in/wearing original military watches?

[Cooper A-2]

Anyone interested in or wearing original military watches with flight/military jackets?

 

[robrinay]

I've wear a 1982 Precista 'WWW' I part traded for a broken IWC (yes that one - one of the dirty dozen).

 

[Cooper A-2]

The new IWC owner must be very happy and lucky.

 

[robrinay]

The new IWC owner must be very happy and lucky.

He certainly was, my watch man had put me off repairing it owing to the cost and tbh I really needed the cash at the time. The buyer repaired it himself within a week! No regrets from me the cash was nice and the Precista is good looking accurate and if I lose I'll get another if I'd kept the IWC and ever damaged or lost it I'd have cried!

 

[Pdxgeo]

I wear a ww2 hamilton with or without my a2.

 

[handymike]

I have seen some really great WW1 trench watches.
I especially like the schrapnel guards and leather straps.
If they came in 37mm diam., I'd probably take the plunge

 

[Cooper A-2]

I wear an Omega Moon Watch and a Benrus DTU 2A/P with my flight jackets.
For work its a Casio G-Shock Rangeman

 

[Deacon211]

I'd love to get a true period watch. The closest I came was a 42mm Laco...Nav B Uhr. Not true to the original size (which was huge), and wrong side of the conflict.

But a cool watch nonetheless.

I do have an old red/black Rolex GMT. More 50s than 40s, but a pilot favorite.


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[Cooper A-2]

Love Rolex.
Especially the divers.
Got a Tudor issued in 1993, had to give it back.
Need to sell a few items more and then buy a DeepSea.

 

[Superfluous]

 

[feltfan]

I would if I had one. I like the WWII watches. But I am interested in the watches with the metal over
the crystal. I do have one of those- would have been my grandfather's. He served in WWI. I may have
to get it restored. Didn't know what it was.

 

[EmergencyIan]

I wear an Elgin WWII 1945 A-11 aviators watch. I also wear a 1969 Benrus GG-W-113 watch. I have leather bands on both...brown on the Elgin and black on the Benrus.

- Ian

 

[bn1966]

Mine:

 

[Mr. Pickett]

On the lookout for a vintage Longines Lindbergh!

 

[willyto]

We have a whole thread on the general subforum.

I wear a late 1920s Elgin military watch daily. I have several vintage Elgin from that era and the 1930s also a Timor A.T.P watch from WW2.

I don't like modern watches because I like the size of the old ones and the designs. Not interested in watches that cost thousands of dollars.

 

[Talon884]

I wear this one from time to time from my grandfather, from his days flying P-51's in the South Pacific during WW II. Waltham Type A-11

 

[Fanch]

One of the factors that make a pilot's watch is visibility. Here are a couple of mine.

 

[David Conwill]

I have my grandfather's Bulova A-11. I wore it all the time after he first gave it to me (I must have been 9 or 10, he died when I was 11) but over-wound it. I had it repaired when I graduated college but it only lasted a couple weeks and has resided in my jewelry box since. Someday I'll have it repaired again.

 

[M Hatman]

I wear this one from time to time from my grandfather, from his days flying P-51's in the South Pacific during WW II. Waltham Type A-11
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[bn1966]

I wear an Omega Moon Watch and a Benrus DTU 2A/P with my flight jackets.
For work its a Casio G-Shock Rangeman

My trio are very similar to yours, will post pics over the weekend if time allows.