BATTLEFRONT HEIRLOOMS – OMEGA MILITARY WATCH SERVICE

TIMEPIECE OR HISTORICAL TIME MACHINE?

“The market for military timepieces,  especially World War Two models, is booming. According to Christie’s watch department in New York, many models have increased in value by 300 percent in five years and others have eclipsed even that. It is not surprising. Ex-service watches are often rare, having been produced in limited numbers, and unique, wth features unavailable on civilian models. However, there is another aspect to them that, frustratingly, is unknowable: what those watches have been through. Handling an Omega Seamaster used by the Special Boat Service, for instance, or an Omega CK2192 worn by a Hurricane pilot in the Battle of Britain, you can’t help thinking: ‘if only these timepieces could act as a time machines and tell their story”.

The Omega article tells the fascinating tale of a gentleman who had inherited his Grandfather’s Omega RAF  pilot watch  (The model is of similar guise and time period to the one worn by Daniel Craig in Dunkirk).