Excellent video and a really nice watch.
Roll on August then. Are you taking pre-orders?
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Excellent video and a really nice watch.
Roll on August then. Are you taking pre-orders?
Watched the review, both versions look fantastic. I do like the deployment clasp as well.
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Cracking Review. Will there be an option to forgo the leather strap for a nato? Or is it indeed the only option? Thanks
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Great review. ID guy was a good choice for first review, he does his job very well.
Wow - both of those looked absolutely gorgeous - and the review was top class too
As aldfort mentioned below - although its not your usual business model - why don't you think about taking pre-orders; it might help avoid some of the 'spikes' in the shopping experience and you having to do all the labelling and packaging in one go?
Excellent review Eddie, the only problem is now everyone will want one!
I am very tempted to try and get both. Although I expect they will probably sell out on the day they go on sale.
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Yeah I'm in, not decided on colour yet.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
God I love the cream face. I'll be in for one.
They both look stunning Eddie, congratulations you’ve got another winner on your hands there.
Looking forward to the big day and some time to save up. ATB
Excellent review - really helps capture the shape and features that photos can’t.
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The review was excellent and brought the watch to life for me from the pictures and the initial schemes.
I was a ‘maybe’ on getting one of these watches. I will now definitely join the queue on the web shop as soon as they are available.
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Fantastic Edddie, a high "must have" factor.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
That's a nice review, and those look like extremely nice watches. At this size I usually like white dials, but I'm really drawn to the black dial on this one.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Excellent review, or should that be preview?
That cream dial is very tempting!
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Great review, well thought and presented.
Seeing them move brings the proportions together very well, and allows the effect of the polished bezel to be seen in a way that still photos cannot.
Nice review of a great product, well done.
Of the two, it is the cream one for me.
Dave
Absolutely magnificent Eddie. Especially the black one. What you've done particularly well is having the dial sit high in the case and thus pushing the hands high and making them look exposed and vulnerable under the glass. The watch looks great on that guy. It sparkles. The quality is getting better all the time.
Costume jewellery. Ouch!!!
So well done, I'm definitely in for a cream one.
Now, unlike most others, I'd prefer a quartz movement of quality. A Longines VHP springs to mind ...
I too would love a quartz watch as I’d be more likely to wear on weekend when without planning find myself doing things that might shake an automatic movement a bit too much.
Great review. And if the comments above are any indication, another winner that will keep Eddie busy for weeks after its release.
IDGuy is one of my favorite watch reviewers! Just got finished watching his review and now I might have another watch I have to put on my list. At this rate I’ll have more Smiths then Seikos!
Great review, I'm definitively in for a black one
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Nice review that and the watch is looking very nice. Prefer the black out of the two.
Oh no, black or cream? Hard choice
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Black ? Cream ? Or both ?
Sigh ...
+1 on a 36mm watch with a quartz movement (Everest black dial for choice though ... or maybe a new polar white dial version :-) )
Outstanding review of an outstanding watch. Black dial does it for me.
wow. One of the best watch reviews I've seen in a while. All of his statements were bang on IMO.
Eddie: please make the strap + deployant clasp, or the deployant clasp by itself available for purchase so we can put it on our other Smiths 18mm watches. Thanks.
The Caseback review is up...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DS8b30m1q9U
Costume jewellery. Ouch!!!
Looks lovely ‘in the flesh’
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I’m just catching up with the reviews. My god, this looks like an absolute stunner and winner! I suspect the lucky few will be very happy indeed if and when they manage to get their hands on one. I will be trying very hard myself!
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Wow these both look great! Leaning towards the cream dial. Is it just me or is there no ‘Great Britain’ on the bottom of the cream dial? Is this intentional to reduce clutter? On the PRS-29 Air Ministry vs the Military, ‘England’ was added to the dial instead of ‘Great Britain’ at the bottom. Guess my OCD is showing...
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Black looks lovely, but my PRS-29b has a domed sapphire crystal, ETA 2801 and 50,000 A/m.
That and the sheer hassle of fighting with others and/or sagepay means a purchase of the Navigator is likely out of the question for me and possibly for many other genuine enthusiasts.
Finding a used Hawkinge is a more realistic alternative, although a sterile San Martin can be had for £120.
Shame really
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bleh. An antimagnetic cage is essential to a Mark XI type watch. Without all the basic MoD requirements, the watch is just a fashion watch, which is the exact opposite of what this watch should be.
Plus the Hawkinge is automatic and the wristshots look terrible. The watch is too thick. Also, a Mark XII homage might get away with a domed sapphire crystal, but a Mk XI homage needs a box sapphire. Just a very hohum mediocre watch.
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Hawkinge schmawkinge
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
An anti magnetic cage was essential when the MK XI was used for actual navigation in an actual aircraft cockpit.
By your logic, you’re calling Eddie’s homage watches that don’t have the same magnetic protection “Fashion watches” then?
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As far as I know, Eddie's military watches all have antimagnetic cages. Only the watches that aren't reissues or homages to MoD spec'ed watches don't have antimagnetic cages.
I personally have no interest in "field watches" that don't have antimagnetic cages, which is why I'm not lining up for the Everest. But a watch that is clearly taking design cues from a military watch, and labels itself as a "field watch" should absolutely have an antimagnetic cage IMO (as well as decent WR). Why? Because a field watch only has "one job". That is: tell the time reliably in the field. The 3 things that can affect a watch in the field are water, shock and magnets. Since a field watch doesn't have any other features like a chrono, timing bezel, GMT hand and date, then it absolutely must be water/shock/magnet resistant. Absolutely.
One of the reasons why I feel that field watches should also be manual wind, is because the automatic winding system is counter to the water/shock/magnet core requirements; I don't want the watch to have a heavy rotor spinning around when I'm running, unnecessarily putting strain on the winding mechanism and creating metal dust in the watch; why on earth do I need to have the watch constantly winding itself? I just need to feed my dog once a day, I don't need to be stuffing him with food constantly throughout the day.
That is my thinking anyway, but obviously many people disagree, which is why most field watches don't have antimagnetic shields (and most are automatic). You can buy em, I won't. How many antimagnetic hand-wound watches with sapphire crystal and below 40mm size can you think of?
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On a side note reading about the history of the watch has got me interested in astronavigation.