Please Note, For authenticity I removed the centre second hand from this watch, Real 1940s MMs didn’t have one. Sword shaped hours and minutes hand and thin straight seconds hand.Green lume on hours and minutes hands. British SBS Commando 70's, French Naval Diver 70's, US Infantry 70's, Australian Army 70's, German Naval Commander 60's Ever since I can remember I’ve always had a watch, never been great at punctuality, but I’ve always known how late I was. I also have a tendency to collecting and look after things I own so over the years had acumulated a few watches, mainly cheap fashion watches, but a few budget brands, a couple of good quartz chronographs, and a very nice quality automatic. Cushion”style 44mm polished finish. 46.6mm including crown, 52.6mm lug to lug, 11.7mm deep. 37.5mm interior aperture.

And this is the Lemania that would have been more likely issued during the early post WW2 period, note the single pusher for the chronograph. pencil shaped hours hand and straight minutes hand with pointed tip, thin straight seconds hand. Green lume on hours and minutes hands. Please note there is No seconds hand on the watch as standard. The movement has the mechanism for a seconds hand and the watch pictured has had one custom fitted. Definitions: The Auction Centre, who act only as auctioneers and agents for the vendor are called “The Auctioneers”. “Hammer Price” means the level of bidding reached at or in excess of any reserve when the Auctioneer brings down the hammer. The Auctioneers act as agents for the vendor, and as such are not responsible for any default by the vendor or the buyer.plated polished finish. 50.7mm including crown, 51.6mm lug to lug, 11mm deep. 41.6mm interior aperture. To counter this we set up a separate review thread to keep all the pictures and technical info about the collection in a single linear thread, just in case anybody was interested in the collection, but not our off topic ramblings, because I was still subscribing I assumed the task of posting the latest watches to the thread. The highest bidder shall be the buyer except in the case of any dispute. If during the course of the auction, the auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen, he has absolute discretion to settle it or to re-offer the lot. The auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse any bid. Then one day it got spammed by some random idiot. Briefly and without to much detail, what happened next was this:

Numerous companies still manufacture watches with similar specification with both quartz and mechanical movements. Sword shaped hours hand and straight minutes hand with pointed tip, thin straight seconds hand. Green lume on hours and minutes hands. I dunno what the thing is with the long stem, I suspect the original it alludes to maybe had a flexible stem, it attracted quite a lot of attention with my friends I saw out and about today and was the first time I hadn't worn my Amphibia since I got it lol blue painted dial with white printed minute scale at outer edge. Hours indicated with embossed green hour markers, a triangle at 12, rectangles at 3-6-9, circles at other marks. All marks have good luminous effect. 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.

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The auctioneer has absolute discretion to divide any lot, to combine two or more lots, to withdraw any lot, to refuse bids, to regulate the bidding or cancel the sale without giving a reason and without notice. The auctioneer may bid on behalf of the vendor for all goods which are being offered for sale subject to reserve or at the auctioneer’s discretion. 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. If you like you can skip to the next post now, which is a brief look at issue 1, the American Infantry Watch, or read on for why I’m doing this thread. A few weeks later I signed up to a watch forum and found a few likeminded UK based watch enthusiast who where also interested in the Eaglemoss MWC, we started chatting and because of the fortnights gap between watches the topic of conversation started to drift to other types of affordable watches, and beyond, way-way beyond. we started a bit of a mutual interest thread that went off topic more than it stayed on. You could easily argue that, along with many other manufacturers, Citizen have also been influenced by the Omega Seamaster stye.