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Holzie
10-08-2006, 04:00 PM
Will you still wind me, you know you can't grind me, when I'm sixty-four!!!
This was issued to my Dad at Officer Flight School. He said he got this along with an A-2 Flight jacket and a sleeping bag. Its Waltham 17 jewels, hacking

Just picked it up from my watchmaker, Carlton, yep he's open on Sundays!!
Total overhaul, it hadn't run in years. Broken balance staff as well. He repainted the minute hands and on his own the second red. He said, I think it looks cool if you don't like it I'll put it back to white. I said nope the red looks just fine!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/mholzmann/WalthamWWll.jpg

JDS (Ohio)
10-09-2006, 11:47 AM
Kind of cool to have piece with not only a military issue history, but also a family history as well.

Out of curiousity, what is the case diameter on that Waltham?

Holzie
10-10-2006, 03:00 PM
Worn under a long sleeve dress shirt it is soo comfy:) I love the big watches but I am starting to appreciate the small guys more and more.

JDS (Ohio)
10-10-2006, 06:04 PM
A 30mm watch without a rotating or other wide bezel would probably still be pretty legible. I just now put some digital calipers on my SMP 300 dial, and the diameter across, inside the bezel ring, was only 30.04mm.

I have 2 vintage Sea Wolf divers that are only 35mm, but they are at the low limit of what I can wear and feel "normal", and even there the bezel is fairly narrow and yet overhangs the case edge just a hair. I do find that size and weight just to be big and macho doesn't really float my boat. A big chunk of steel doesn't necessarily give you all that much protection. Sometimes it just seems either bad design, or obsessively macho.

If you get a chance, how about a wrist shot of your vintage aviator? Here's a cople of my Sea Wolves. Please remember, the watch really doesn't look this bad, the photographer's skills and equipment sucked.:o


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/Zaphod04/Sea%20Wolf%2020%20ATM/SeaWolfwristshot.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/Zaphod04/Sea%20Wolf%2020%20ATM/ZodiacSeawolf_1960s_withgoldbezel_wrist_atangle.jp g