Really nice watches. Would love to have those two in my small collection.

 

guys thanks for really interesting comments . Actually they r both 2914-5 railmasters with PAF , Pakistan Air Force markings on the back. Pilots did not like the railmaster markings so they were marked Seamaster instead . A very few railmasters were made with Seamaster markings.

 

Very striking pieces indeed

 

these were the only railmasters, that the factory marked seamaster. very nice toolwatch; mine is the later reference PAF. authenticated by the factory. kind regards. achim

 

Wow, very hard to find awesome watches

Do you have any idea of how many of these went off to the Pakistanis?

 

For the time, fairly well up-to-date F-86 Sabres. Used effectively in the later part of the decade to whack a Canberra of the IAF.

 

They use to call F-86 , the flying coffins. Re number of watches issued or made , the ones I have seen so far , only last three digits of the movement serial number change. This proves that they were less than 999. However, in those days the PAF was a very small force and I recon at the most 200 or so were produced.
It will be a good project for someone who has access to omega archives.

 

The fact is this model of Omega Seamaster was a special issue wrist watch issued to Pakistan Air Force pilots who belonged to GD(P) - General Duties Pilot branch as well as Navigators and Air Signallers of the P.A.F. As a kid, sometimes I used to put on this model on my wrist at home when my father used to take it off (it did seem rather quite big on my small wrist then). These were generally issued with black leather straps/expandable bracelets. Interestingly, these were synchronised and repaired at a lab in an air base in Drigh Road (now Shahrah Faisal) in Karachi.

 

Cool, do you still have your fathers watch?

 

Actually, the F-86 was known as "Sabre" that took active part in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war as well as in 1971 war with India after which these were decommissioned. The "flying coffin" was the nickname for Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (most were based at Sargodha, Pakistan).

 

"P.A.F." commonly refers to Pakistan Air Force (known as "Pak Fazaia" in Urdu, Pakistan's national language), PAF abbreviation could also stand for different other names (coincidence?).

 

Negative, I don't - unfortunately. The watch parted from us.