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I've been looking for a thicker NATO, with slightly thicker all steel hardware, stitched, and in just the right shade of olive green. Something between a Zulu and a standard NATO strap. A tall order...

here is one I like though..

MARATAC AQC? COMPASS WATCH

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Hi Terry
ISA 1198

The movement is indeed an ISA quartz, battery is a 395. Crystal is 2.96mm thick and 29mm in diameter.

Back is marked:

6645-99
767-3314
245/93
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I remember reading that the smaller...

I have been hunting one of these for over two years now. Finally scored :)

It has the best design elements of the Benrus divers, with the British MOD dial and SAR-like bezel. It was one of the...

and a minor repair performed. This civilian SM300 was not handwinding as it should. Since everything else worked fine, I narrowed the possible causes down to a few parts. I orderd a new winding...

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RN diver, a long time grail.

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Here is the Smiths on a 17mm Jurgens/Elias goat skin leather strap



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I also have one in 18mm for the Eterna WWW
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Jurgens straps come in 17mm. Another option is to find an 18mm NATO that is a bit narrower (17.5mm for example) or a 16mm that is closer to 17mm. I have seen many tolerance variations on NATOs.

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Fell free to delete it then. My apologies, BMW is the only forum I regularly visit, I guess the watchtalk forum would have been more appropriate.

Actually, $85, the dial is the original dial. The owner wanted a diff. dial, but it was for a crown at 4 case, so it didn't work.

The total on this one was about $105

Included dial swap, red-tipped sweep, case prep and bead blasting, cost of black date/day wheels and installation.

A slightly less industrial look :P



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Very nice! Congratulations. That slipped under my radar or I would have bid on it also. Any chance the issue numbers were worn off? or erased?
They are usually fainter to begin with.

The original flat sapphire was nice, but I had been hankering for a domed crystal to complete the vintage look, so I finally did it.
Probably not 100 M WR any more, but I have plenty of other...

The Sandoz was a private purchase on a sales corner, $180 IIRC..
Reto sells them on the PMWF.com, some eBay sellers may have them also.. They pop up on the sales corners now and then.
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Certainly :)

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The 12 brands that supplied WWW spec watches to the MoD from mid-1940s to early 1950s:
Buren
Cyma
Eterna
Grana
IWC
JLC
Lemania
Longines
Omega

Picked up an Eterna and a Lemania WWW, with an option on a Buren :) to add to the Cyma, Timor, Record and Vertex.

That makes 6 (half of the dirty dozen) and one more in the cross hairs..

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My Sandoz arrived today! It's going to be a looonnnggg honeymoon ;)
Thanks Jack!

On a NATO:

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Just got this back from Aldo, who re-finished and re-plated the case and re-lumed the dial and hands. A sympathetic restoration.

You've seen the before pics..

After:
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It's a Sandoz Sub (Singapore version). MkII Explorer dial and sword hands, relumed in "aged" lume by IWW. Crown, bezel, etc.. are all original.
I kept the sapphire crystal. Dome acrylic wouldn't...

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Just heard from Jack Alexyon at IWW..

What can I say? The man is an artist. A watch I will probably never be able to afford, at least I can have a...