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 ...
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. ...
Updated Dec 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM by Churchy
This watch was released as a subscriber only edition, there was no magazine accompanying the watch and so details of its origins are speculative. Similar watches were produced by CWC, the Cabot Watch Company, a long time suplier to the British military. However for the time period attributed to the watch many RAF chronographs were supplied by Lemania. ...
Updated Dec 17, 2014 at 10:46 AM by Churchy
This watch is probably based on a 1960s Omega Seamaster 300. Some sections of the french Navy used a watch bought "off the shelf”, the Tudor ‘Oyster Prince’, however one section, SHOM; Service Hydrographique et Océanonographique de la Marine, was supplied by Omega, the role of the department is to document and map the worlds oceans both for military and public service. ...
This watch is is a representation of a 1940 Panerai 6152, Marina Militare: It was produced for the Italian Navy, and would have had a Rolex 618 movement. Not many survive, actual numbers aren’t known for sure but its probably less than 100. If you see an ‘original' for sale anywhere but a very expensive auction house you can be certain its a fake. ...
Updated Dec 28, 2014 at 11:48 PM by Churchy
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