Reply With QuoteBe careful these beauties will infest your collection and take over :wink: well done and great choice 85 royal navy.
Be careful these beauties will infest your collection and take over :wink: well done and great choice 85 royal navy.
The strap suits it very well.
Simplicity at its best 8)
Great looking strap!
Everybody should have at least one in their collection.
Sent from my GT-S5830
what a watch, cwc is my favorite military watch brand
I thought that but then I could not stop until I got hold of every different version!Originally Posted by derek_faker
Peter
Hi Peter,I thought that but then I could not stop until I got hold of every different version!
Peter
There are so many too. Do you keep them all running? I do but I'm not sure whether I should. :?
why not, after all they are quarz driven!
Definitely. (But looks like Silverman's are out of stock of both versions if you want new. At least they're no longer available on their website.)
Here mine,
those issued RN divers are starting to be quiet rare, moreover in France !
enjoy,
Laurent
ha ha, this thread has just reminded me i have one of the divers in the back of my cupboard!, i think its an early one as it has the acrylic? bezel insert.
cheers
mike
Any picture of the back Mike ?
not at moment laurent, i am away at work, back home in a couple of weeks, i will dig it out then and take a pic.
cheers
mike
Thanks a lot for injecting CWC virus into my artery. Do you really have to take these mouth watering fotos?
Wear them in good health . . .
Capt. Serdal
Don't forget Precista. Here's mine from 1982.
Another lovely timepiece :bounce: :drunken:
Wear it in good health, my friend . . .
Capt. Serdal
Actually, my Precista has different hands to those on my CWCs. I assume that they were made in the same factory?
The Precista hour and minute hands are polished and the seconds hand has a larger "tail". The seconds hands are balanced as per the "Defence Standard" documents of the era in which the watches were manufactured.
Really like the look of the CWCs, hoping to get one myself very soon.
Although they are made to a price, isn't everything these days, the post 1983 ones have a quality Swiss 7 jewel quartz movement in them.
The earlier ones, known as "Fat Boys" have a Swiss ETA quartz movement with 0 jewels but it's a really nice movement and it was used by the likes of Heuer in their diver's watches.
Get one, you won't regret it. :)
I'm going on a road trip round Europe in a couple of months and think a CWC will be able to take the punishment. It wont upset me too much when it gets bashed about whilst I'm trying to fix the car :lol:
I have 3 precistas, 2 from 1982 and 1 from 1984. The hand quality seems better than the cwc equivalent. Also the Lume retains the original colour. When I bought my 1984 the hands were that good I thought they must be new I have since seen others the same.
I am not sure they are made in the same factory. All of my precistas have the 2 screws missing that hold the movement into the silver coloured movement holding ring. I used the screws from dead cwcs to secure the movement. They are not needed as the movement is kept in place by the caseback. I have never encountered a fatboy cwc of the same age without the screws.
Peter
I'm really taken with the CWC G10, finally got round to getting one and the wife purloined it within a couple of days... Looks great on her too, so rather than pop this new found horological appreciation, I'm thinking of getting a PRS-10 to wear myself, as I'm a lot harder on my watches than she is. Furthermore, the CWC is in really nice condition, and the added WR of the Precista will give me greater piece of mind when immersing my hands in buckets of water etc.
Couple of pics (courtesy of the good lady).
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