North Eagles Military Watches [Italy]

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North Eagles Military Watches

Aviazione Navale Cronografo Lemania 5100

38x47mm, screw down crown, fixed tacky bezel,chronograph with quickset functions
10ATM [100m] water resistance
20mm lugs
Dial has the crest of the Italian Naval Airforce (Aviazione Navale) but it is not a military issued watch.
The watch case was also used by DPW, Revue Thommen, Roamer, Eberhard, Candino and others for 5100-powered chronographs
  • North Eagles Military Watches of Italy makes Italian armed forces themed "unit pride"watches, sold in military PX stores, operating on the same business model as DPW's, [Diver Professional Watches] who bought parts inventory from other big name watch brands such as Breitling, Squale, etc. etc. ... and assembled them as their own.
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I believe they took existing watches/cases and offered through the Italian PXs. For example, I have a vintage Squale that was most likely offered through the PX. North Eagles later offered the exact same watch.

 
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North Eagles Military Watches

Aviazione Navale Cronografo Lemania 5100

38x47mm, screw down crown, fixed tacky bezel,chronograph with quickset functions
10ATM [100m] water resistance
20mm lugs
Dial has the crest of the Italian Naval Airforce (Aviazione Navale) but it is not a military issued watch.
The watch case was also used by DPW, Revue Thommen, Roamer, Eberhard, Candino and others for 5100-powered chronographs
  • North Eagles Military Watches of Italy makes Italian armed forces themed "unit pride"watches, sold in military PX stores, operating on the same business model as DPW's, [Diver Professional Watches] who bought parts inventory from other big name watch brands such as Breitling, Squale, etc. etc. ... and assembled them as their own.
Most of the small watch brands creating watches from the Lemania 5100 and shelf parts I find to be ugly, often Italian and using gold tone parts. But this one's quite nice.
 
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North Eagles and DPW indeed competed on the same market. Their business model was similar, and their models many, with designs that ranged from pretty nice to quite meh.

In the course of my Lemania 5100 collecting days, I did own several of their watches, and found subtle differences between seemingly similar looking models. But before I get into that, let's have a look at some pictures first.

The first one featured is the "6° Stormo Caccia" (6th fighter wing) chronograph by North Eagles.
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This watch case is a bit different to the one featured in the original post. Just look at the rather massive crown guard! In fact, I found the exact same case/bezel combination on a ZentRa branded chronograph. And other watch companies did offer the exact same watch, as right now on eBay you could find a couple: one from Aldex and the other from Jaguar(!).
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Furthermore, the exact same case but with a different bezel design was used by Mondia for their Mistral chronograph.
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As for DPW, my two models used a case that was very similar to the one seen in the original post, though the bezel was different. It is to be noted that if DPW briefly shared the same case as the Champion chronograph from Eberhard, which looks similar in design, it quickly switched to a slightly larger diameter with the one featured on the pictures below. This is the case that was also used by Candino, but not by Revue Thommen whose case was specific for the Lemania 5100.
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