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·Omega for the British Army at the End of WWII:
With a little lesson on the 'Dirty Dozen':
See attached a few examples of the Omega WWW. Its also called 'Dirty Dozen', because its one of 12 brands shipped to British Army in 1945, after the European Theatre of WWII had ended, but in military use even up to the Iraq wars.
All these watches WWW were serviced over years with dial and hands exchange from Radium over Tritium (even Promethium) to luminous even with NSN (the Nato Specification Number) by the Ministry of Defense workshops.
For me, these dial and hands exchanges by the MoD let the watches be original and historical 'military watches', though they did not come from the watch factory like this.
Thus the collectibility depends on your aims as allways. (We in the Rhineland say translated: 'every idiot is different').
Gruss Konrad
Picture: three WWW Omega watches with steel cases, movement cal 30T
See here an IWC WWW (oddly called Mk10) with a Tritium dial with the Nato Specification Number (British adapted, the complete NSN is 6645-99-445-5890, W10 leads the stores ref for the Army):
How it was sold after decomission:
And how parts were sold by the MoD workshops, they had no sense for matching numbers:
With a little lesson on the 'Dirty Dozen':
See attached a few examples of the Omega WWW. Its also called 'Dirty Dozen', because its one of 12 brands shipped to British Army in 1945, after the European Theatre of WWII had ended, but in military use even up to the Iraq wars.
All these watches WWW were serviced over years with dial and hands exchange from Radium over Tritium (even Promethium) to luminous even with NSN (the Nato Specification Number) by the Ministry of Defense workshops.
For me, these dial and hands exchanges by the MoD let the watches be original and historical 'military watches', though they did not come from the watch factory like this.
Thus the collectibility depends on your aims as allways. (We in the Rhineland say translated: 'every idiot is different').
Gruss Konrad
Picture: three WWW Omega watches with steel cases, movement cal 30T
- The one on the top has Radium hands.
- The centre watch has MoD hands.
- The last one has an MoD dial though it is marked ‚Swiss made‘, it is also remarked for the Royal Navy H.S. 10 for the diving supervisor.
See here an IWC WWW (oddly called Mk10) with a Tritium dial with the Nato Specification Number (British adapted, the complete NSN is 6645-99-445-5890, W10 leads the stores ref for the Army):
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