In 1953 Omega supplied a batch of Chronometer certified antimagnetic watches with radium painted dials, to the British RAF. Known to collectors as the Omega '53, the watch had a limited production run and was recalled to have tritium dials retrofitted. Original Omega 53s are rare, and the few remaining Radium dialled examples are even more expensive. ...
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 ...
This should more accurately be called the Observers watch. B-Uhr is an abbreviation for Beobachtungs-uhr, literally Observation watch, The B-Uhr type-B style dial was designed to be read quickly and easily in the high stress situations Pilots would often experience. The magazine states that the original versions were made by a number of companies including: A. Lange & Sohne, Stowa, IWC, Wempe, and ...
Updated Dec 13, 2014 at 11:53 PM by Churchy
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