Many different watches have been worn by Russian Cosmonauts, for example; On the first manned Space flight, Yuri Gagarin wore a Shockproof, water resistant Sturmanskie, these were based on a watch from the French firm Lip. In 1960 NII-Chasprom, a Science Institute based in Belarus, made a small number of Electro Mechanical watches for the Soviet space agency, they are very rare ...
In 1919 the Sons of George Eberhard took a larger role in the running of the company and released Eberhard & Co's first "wrist" chronograph. The link between this watch and the Italian Army is a little tenuous. It is quite possible that Army Officers would have purchased the Eberhard & Co wristwatch, and having a wrist Chronograph would certainly have been useful for ranging artillery, ...
The Soviet Union began to use combat frogmen during World War 2, from August 1941 early units operated from a base near Leningrad on Deckabristov Island. These units were disbanded at the end of the war and it was not until 1953 that a new naval combat diving unit was formed. The soviets were used to repurposing captured German equipment and it is likely that they also put captured Diving ...
The Royal Air Force procured chronographs from various manufacturers during the 1980s including Hamilton, CWC and Precista. For one year only, 1980, they also used the Newmark Military Chronograph, due to the relatively short run these watches are particularly scarce. They followed the standard pattern required by the RAF with a large asymmetric case with twin pushers a recessed crown and swiss ...
Updated Dec 3, 2015 at 03:43 PM by Churchy
The Seikosha company opened for business in 1881 and by 1938 it was producing a million watches a year. The company supplied the army in both an official capacity and also as the watch of choice for the japanese man on the street and by association the japanese soldier. The Seiko Nation watch was small, but this reflected Japans lack of natural resources within its borders, this relative lack of material ...
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