The French Navy started to use Tudor brand divers watches for Naval Divers and Marine Commandos in the 1960s. Tudor is a more affordable sub brand of Rolex, they use Swiss ETA or Valjoux movements but have similar styling. The specification of the watches used changed over time to a Blue Dial/Blue Bezel configuration from the 80s. ...
Issue 19 is based on the Benrus type1, standard issue for US Navy SEAL teams during the Vietnam war. Simple and reliable with Swiss ETA Movements they are virtually impossible to find on the collectors market, good quality replicas command four figure price tags. They were found to be expensive to produce and went out of use in favour of off the shelf alternatives. ...
Updated Dec 30, 2014 at 02:44 PM by Churchy
The watch depicted in issue 14 is a representation of an Eterna KonTiki Super watch, it was a preferred watch of The Israeli Navy Special Forces Unit, Shayatet 13. Members of this elite unit go through a two year programme that produces a highly trained soldier capable of operations on land, air and sea, both surface and underwater. ...
Produced for the Japanese Imperial Navy by the Seikosha watch company, originals are extremely rare and command high prices particularly in the Japanese market. Japanese pilots where the elite, and the training programme rigorous and often brutal, the numbers of pilots that qualified could not keep up with the losses they suffered. ...
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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