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·Dear All
We are proud to announce that our article, "The Smiths That Never Was: Britain's Lost Military Diver", has been published in Timepiece, the magazine of the
British Watch & Clock Makers Guild (BWCMG).
The article, which has been granted front-page status, explores our discovery and subsequent investigation of the remarkable Smiths W10/0308 wristwatch we unveiled last year.
Our research includes an evaluation of the watch’s provenance and construction, together with other known Smiths experimental military wristwatches and newly examined MoD documents relating to secret trials of British military dive watches.
The Guild considers our article to be "an important record of an important watch, which will now be preserved in history".
It is the culmination of many months of hard work and tireless research. However, as genuine military watch enthusiasts, researching a timepiece of such potentially huge historical significance has been a true labour of love, and an absolute dream come true.
When we acquired the watch, we knew it was special, but we did not appreciate quite how significant it may prove to be. The deeper we looked, the more difficult it became to explain it as anything other than an experimental military prototype.
When considering its provenance, construction and the wider historical context, the evidence supports a compelling possibility: that Smiths came remarkably close to producing a fully British military dive watch to rival its Swiss-made contemporaries.
James Bond famously wore a Rolex, but had the newly researched Smiths been produced, perhaps he would have checked the time on a watch not made in Geneva but in Cheltenham.
The Smiths W10/0308 and our article are to feature on The Grey NATO podcast this forthcoming Thursday.
In the meantime, the full story can be found within our latest journal, The Smiths That Never Was: Britain's Lost Military Diver.
I sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Our sincere thanks and appreciation go to the following for their kind assistance in the preparation of our article: Konrad Knirim, Barry M Jones, Simon Freese, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Farrow, Harper Field Auctioneers & The British Watch & Clock Makers Guild.
Chris Herbert MBWCG
Finest Hour
www.finest-hour.co.uk
We are proud to announce that our article, "The Smiths That Never Was: Britain's Lost Military Diver", has been published in Timepiece, the magazine of the
British Watch & Clock Makers Guild (BWCMG).
The article, which has been granted front-page status, explores our discovery and subsequent investigation of the remarkable Smiths W10/0308 wristwatch we unveiled last year.
Our research includes an evaluation of the watch’s provenance and construction, together with other known Smiths experimental military wristwatches and newly examined MoD documents relating to secret trials of British military dive watches.
The Guild considers our article to be "an important record of an important watch, which will now be preserved in history".
It is the culmination of many months of hard work and tireless research. However, as genuine military watch enthusiasts, researching a timepiece of such potentially huge historical significance has been a true labour of love, and an absolute dream come true.
When we acquired the watch, we knew it was special, but we did not appreciate quite how significant it may prove to be. The deeper we looked, the more difficult it became to explain it as anything other than an experimental military prototype.
When considering its provenance, construction and the wider historical context, the evidence supports a compelling possibility: that Smiths came remarkably close to producing a fully British military dive watch to rival its Swiss-made contemporaries.
James Bond famously wore a Rolex, but had the newly researched Smiths been produced, perhaps he would have checked the time on a watch not made in Geneva but in Cheltenham.
The Smiths W10/0308 and our article are to feature on The Grey NATO podcast this forthcoming Thursday.
In the meantime, the full story can be found within our latest journal, The Smiths That Never Was: Britain's Lost Military Diver.
I sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Our sincere thanks and appreciation go to the following for their kind assistance in the preparation of our article: Konrad Knirim, Barry M Jones, Simon Freese, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Farrow, Harper Field Auctioneers & The British Watch & Clock Makers Guild.
Chris Herbert MBWCG
Finest Hour
www.finest-hour.co.uk
