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​We began creating this list of our favourite watches with a limit of 10. No categories, just 10 watches that we like that have been released in 2014. We couldn't keep to 10 so we had to make it a top 12, as you can tell, we liked a lot of watches from 2014 and even narrowing it down to 12 was tough.

We are fully aware of some of the works of art that incredibly talented watchmakers are producing but costing 6 figures, they are not realistically obtainable by the average Joe. I mean,

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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.

12 Swiss manufacturers supplied these watches including Longines, Omega, IWC and Jeager Le ...

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Every three months a Special edition watch is offered by Eaglemoss as a supplement to the collection.
The first of these is a 1910 style Pocket Watch to mark the ‘birth’ of the RAF during the First World War. It's evolution from the airborne unit of the Royal engineers, into the Royal Flying Corps, then encouraged by Winston Churchill, the then First Lord of the Admiralty, the separate Royal Naval ...

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The Hampden Watch Company was by no means the largest and best known American watchmaker but its story is indeed one of the most interesting ones.
Hampden has its roots in the Mozart Watch Company founded by Don Mozart in Providence RI in 1864. Mozart's initial commercial attempt was a failure and other investors reorganized the company in 1867 as the New York Watch Company and moved it to Springfield MA.
Things went better in Springfield but eventually the New York Watch Company had ...

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From the 1960s The Royal Australian Navy issued it’s specialist Clearance Diving Team with watches that were available from the company DROZ.
They were purchased in small batches and there are at least three different models, they are very sought after and command high prices on the collector market.
The model depicted by the MWC watch is most likely a DROZ SuperCompressor.
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Updated Dec 28, 2014 at 10:47 PM by Churchy

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