Continuing my conversion to rivet, I found a very nice expanding rivet bracelet for my 5513 from IV-67. The bracelet is marked 1-67. I call this my cooking watch, as I wear it when I’m preparing food. Sometimes, like today, it’ll stay on my wrist for most of the day. These 60’s Rolexes are my proof that Rolex used to know how to design a beautiful, graceful watch, unspoiled by excess of any sort.
For the last couple of weeks it's been this example of the original run of Magrette Dual Time (159/500). Comfy, quite striking and accurate enough not to need adjusting so far. All good
Last day for the king for a while. Bringing it in for a service as well as some other odds and ends to be addressed
That's what I wore. His graduation gift was a Seiko SNA411P1 pilot chronograph. (He's going to aviation school.)
Where's that tan NATO from? Looks like the ones IWC has been using, with the leather / rubber pinhole strip.
Well in order to answer your question I will need to do some post farming and show another watch in this thread which will partly include an IWC but no this NATO is from the Rado captain Cook. This particular model came with leather, mesh and a NATO. I was going to put it on myself put my watch maker always gives me discounts so I figured I’d have him install it and pay him. Well didn’t work he installed and said no charge. Not sure I’m diggin the way he put in on, I might change it. I did pic up my IWC dial and movement as he had no case around to fit it.
Huh interesting - the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical (and maybe other models) come with a similarly constructed NATO. So the Swatch Group has some nice NATO strap supplier cruising around out there somewhere... really would love to know who it is so we can custom-order some of these things!