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·As I peruse World's Largest Garage Sale, lately looking at 30t2 watches, I not infrequently run across a description that includes "Military Syle."
The below are a couple examples:
And
In the case of the second example, I notice the collar with tabs surrounding the movement. I notice this collar on numerous other watches advertised as military/trench watches (Omega and otherwise.) The collar seems to at least represent somewhat of a theme in military/trench watches, but, as in the first example, some of these watches advertised as "military" seem to have no characteristic separating them from any other older watch.
two questions:
1. What is the purpose of the tabbed collar device surrounding the movement? Is the presence of this collar a strong indication that the watch is made to military specs.
2. Is there any standard set of characteristics that identify a watch as "military" that is generally accepted as such in the horological world?, or, is "military" just generally bandied about in association with any watch that may have been manufactured in war time, e.g. WWI or WWII?
Best,
The below are a couple examples:
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![s-l1600.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2FdUcAAOSwDbljl-XS%2Fs-l1600.jpg&hash=dadaf63942a9a74ddebb8462cebdc4fd)
And
![s-l1600.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2FSR4AAOSws9liYOBP%2Fs-l1600.jpg&hash=d23b5c7b87aec2afc90ac2674b9adf68)
![s-l500.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2Fe4EAAOSwb%7EJiYOKt%2Fs-l500.jpg&hash=87ff9b17d1c7c08549e4830437871d34)
In the case of the second example, I notice the collar with tabs surrounding the movement. I notice this collar on numerous other watches advertised as military/trench watches (Omega and otherwise.) The collar seems to at least represent somewhat of a theme in military/trench watches, but, as in the first example, some of these watches advertised as "military" seem to have no characteristic separating them from any other older watch.
two questions:
1. What is the purpose of the tabbed collar device surrounding the movement? Is the presence of this collar a strong indication that the watch is made to military specs.
2. Is there any standard set of characteristics that identify a watch as "military" that is generally accepted as such in the horological world?, or, is "military" just generally bandied about in association with any watch that may have been manufactured in war time, e.g. WWI or WWII?
Best,