Post pics of your watches Part II *Please NO QUOTING PHOTOS*
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This landed today. Omega Seamaster 166.067 from 1971. It has some form of vaguely sparkly dial. Polished 35.5mm front with matt sides, which is unusual. The quick date setting is done by pulling out the crown, which then springs back in. Each pull out moves the date forward. Needs a better strap.
Dipping my toes in the vintage waters.
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Here are the actual watches issued to a Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot. None of this navigator luxury nonsense.
I have a sneaking suspicion real pilots just climbed in the cockpit and set the clock built into the panel and used that during the flight. I really can't see them messing about getting a pocket watch chronograph out, with the risk of dropping it if you didn't tie it on a cord.
We had a panel clock out of a Hurricane that a mechanic gave my father as a present. It was installed in a cabin cruiser my mother and father built in our backyard. Years later some thieves broke in and stole it from the instrument panel. I find it very curious that a thief would be such a discerning and sharp eyed horologist to even have the faintest idea what it was. None of the other instruments were touched.
Wibbs, can you account for your movements in or around 1975? You weren't in Australia at any point, by any chance?
;-)
Somewhere I even have some original navigation maps for the NW UK Irish Sea and NI as he was in and out of RNAS Eglinton in NI.
The Omega is 32mm and is stuffed; the JLC still works. I have to say those real men aviators wear massive flashy watches Brietling ads with a spitfire in the background annoy the shit out of me, knowing the truth was vastly different.
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