Vintage Military Watches (WW2, Vietnam War etc)

Over the years, I have collected some military watches as follows. Since there are so many kinds of miliary watches, I have just grouped them into the following sub groups for ease of collecting.

Military Watches :

1. Benrus Vietnam war era watches, : Completed Type 1, Type 2 A & B.

2. W10 Watches  : Completed with the Hamilton, CWC, Smiths & the Lost Navigator.

3. Czech Pilot watches ( Longines & Lemania  & Etena Pilot Watch)

4. Pilot watch :Breguet Type XX, Jadur, IWC Mark X, XI

5. Dirty Dozens WW2 watches (Lemaniza, Cyma, Vertex, JLC, IWC and missing Buren, Eterna,  Grana, Longines, Omega, Record, Timor 

6. Navy : Lemania Nuclear submarine chronograph

1. Benrus Vietnam war era watches, : Completed Type 1, Type 2 A & B. The Beurus watches Type 1 & 2 are lovely watches as the sizes are huge and they have unique charateristics such as the oval case, slight diffrences in dials design..

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2. W10 Watches  : Completed with the the four main makers namely Hamilton, CWC, Smiths & the Lost Navigator. Similarly, the W10series have its unique tonneau shape.

3. Czech Pilot watches. The Czech Pilot watch also has its unique shape. This watch, known as a Majetek, was used by mainly by the Czech Air Force during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Like the Dirty Dozen and the Mark XI, the Majatek was produced by several different brands: namely Longines, Lemania, and Eterna. While there are some differences particular to each brand's design (notably, Longines' Majetek featured a coin-edge bezel and Cathedral hands), the hallmark of the watch was its unique steel case with square bezel, round dial aperture and sloping straight lugs. Over the years, the Majetek was seen in two distinct layouts; one with a central sweeping seconds hand and one with a running seconds hand at 6:00. With center sweeping seconds, it's very likely that this particular model was a later production watch, probably dating to the early 1940s. 

Longines with subsidiary seconds and Lemania with sweeping second

Latest added members of the Czech Airforce collection

4. Pilot watch :Breguet Type XX, Jadur

5. Dirty Dozens WW2 watches (Lemaniza, Cyma, Vertex, JLC, IWC and missing Buren, Eterna , Grana, Longines, Omega, Record, Timor. 

During World War II, watch companies equipped timepieces to the Axis and Allied forces. The "Dirty Dozen," which were designed and supplied starting in 1945 to British troops according to Ministry of Defense specifications, have attained a kind of sacred status among military watch collectors. 

IWC mark 11 & 10