polished finish. 41.5mm including partially recessed crown, smoothly curves to lugs 45.2mm lug to lug, 11mm deep. 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.

I can assure you there is no such thing as an irrelevant question, and we won’t be blasting you for not owning a Rolex, or even not owning a Seiko, or for owning a ‘Hello Kitty' watch and not knowing what a chapter ring is. Sword shaped hours hand and straight minutes hand with pointed tip, thin straight seconds hand. Green lume on hours and minutes hands. Please Note, For authenticity I removed the centre second hand from this watch, Real 1940s MMs didn’t have one. The French aviator with two working sub dials intrigued me, I was actually quite impressed as it had a proper if a little light steel bracelet to find that someone at the factory had forgotten to put the 1 numeral on the dial. The NASA astronauts "homage" is a fully working chronograph I am led to believe which if you think about the price of the magazine, an absolute steal for the price. Because of this the information about the watches got lost in the abundance, it wasn’t unusual to get 200 posts a day that had nothing to do with watches, let alone the Eaglemoss Watches.

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If you like the idea of modifying watches, using the Eaglemoss collection can be a cheap way of taking your first steps into the practice, most of the movements are identical so hands can be swapped around though I warn you this is not simple and requires some basic watchmakers tools and a very steady hand. The Case colour is wrong for this model, or the dial is wrong for this style case, either way they don’t belong on the same watch. The printing on the dial is the wrong size, and a little fuzzy and faded close up. The seconds hand is too big for its scale, and the hands are the wrong colour, they should match the case. The quality of finish just too poor to be real. worse than the above homage in many respects, but they are after one thing, profit. True, the watch is not water resistant, and the quartz movement is probably not the best, but I have other watches that fulfil those requirements. Are there any Eaglemoss military watch lovers out there? If so what do you like about their watches?

Yet it is this one below I did buy and I just love it, I am ex forces that dallied with the wavy navy and I remember some of the crazy dive equipment the MoD built in house, some of them old deep sea diving rigs this one below just slotted right in and so I bought it. 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. 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.So onto the thread, I’m aiming to bring up maybe one a day for now, please PM me if you want more or less information, we’d rather just keep this as a pictures and info thread so please any question on the afterlife forum please. I’m not an expert horologist but I hope that you find the following posts Informative. 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. All conditions, notices, descriptions, statements and other matters in the catalogue and elsewhere concerning any lot are subject to any statements and other matters in the catalogue and elsewhere concerning any lot are subject to any statements modifying or affecting the same made by the auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being accepted for the lot. 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. On a smaller secondary scale printed in white, Hours indicated with roman numerals with triangles at 12-3-6-9.

You could easily argue that, along with many other manufacturers, Citizen have also been influenced by the Omega Seamaster stye. Every person attending the auction premises at any time shall be deemed to be there at his or her own risk and shall have no claim against the auctioneers in respect of any accident which may occur, or any injury, damage or loss howsoever caused, save insofar as the injury, damage or loss shall be caused by any employee of the auctioneers. 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. 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. Cushion”style 44mm polished finish. 46.6mm including crown, 52.6mm lug to lug, 11.7mm deep. 37.5mm interior aperture.Numerous companies still manufacture watches with similar specification with both quartz and mechanical movements.

In the event of a sale by private treaty both the vendor and the buyer agree to be bound by the general and any special conditions of sale. Large straight hours and minutes hands with pointed tips, thin straight seconds hand. Green lume on hours and minutes hands. Rolex Submariners are possibly the most copied and certainly one of the most faked watches in the world, dozens of companies make similar watches, at a whole range of prices and quality of finish, in both quartz and mechanical versions.plated polished finish. 50.7mm including crown, 51.6mm lug to lug, 11mm deep. 41.6mm interior aperture. The auctioneers reserve the right to refuse admission to any saleroom used by the auctioneers without giving a reason. This is an Asian made homage to another Omega watch, the Planet Ocean, it has similar Baguette hour markers and the distinctive Omega style curved case. Please note there is No seconds hand as standard. The movement has the mechanism for a seconds hand and the watch pictured has had one custom fitted. Then one day it got spammed by some random idiot. Briefly and without to much detail, what happened next was this: