Originally Posted by
Piemuncher22
Just a quick thread update - I have just had the watch back from John Senior and it looks fantastic - it really is amazing how different it looks with the correct crystal and crown fitted.
For some reason I have not yet heard back from the MWR, but I have been doing a little more digging on the inter web.
From what I can ascertain this far everything here is pointing to the watch being Australian issue. There are 4 main pointers;
I managed to find a post on MWR giving out the case back and movement number ranges for those issued in Australia and the numbers on mine fall well within those ranges.
The “polished” case rather than the matt case - again, Australian issue.
The lugs on the British issued watch cases are different to the Aussie ones - to my untrained eye and only looking at some photos on the web, the lugs on mine look more like the pictures of the Australian ones (would welcome a 2nd opinion on this).
The lack of MOD WWW markings and numbers on the case back is consistent with those issued in Australia.
So, there is only one point which I need to resolve, being the fixed bars. According to everything I’ve read thus far, there should be regular spring bars on the Australian issued watches..... and the bars in mine are definitely fixed!
So the plot thickens, but thus far I haven’t seen a single reference to an Aussie issue watch with fixed bars. Hopefully I’ll hear from the chaps over at MWR and maybe with a bit more digging I can resolve the final point.
Thanks as always to everyone who has helped me piece this together thus far.
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