I have looked at the Armida A6 36mm.
Hands length is perfect. Bracelet is nice. But the whole watch is bulky and much more thick than the Everest 36. Can’t wait of the new batch.
Love the idea of reintroducing the Czech Air Force in 38mm. I do like 36mm watches but 38mm is the real sweet spot for my 7.25" wrist. I know it's a pilot model but if the WR could be 100m that would be wonderful and I'd likely never take it off!
More power to your elbow for coming up with all these amazing ideas whilst laid really low.
I have looked at the Armida A6 36mm.
Hands length is perfect. Bracelet is nice. But the whole watch is bulky and much more thick than the Everest 36. Can’t wait of the new batch.
Please the new Everest black dial batch will have the resized hands already installed on it ? Thanks
The Weems' is a 60 second bezel and the Airman's a 24 hour bezel. What do you mean by copy? The idea of bezels goes back to the 20s... we might argue as to who first put it on a watch but bezels were standard equipment on airplane clocks so it was only a matter of time before they were to be used on watches. We can argue about the first bezels... or the first diving-bezels... or the first GMT bezels... but it does not mean that anyone was copying anyone else.
Of course the 1940 Air Ministry LeCoulte Weems were actually Smiths (kind of)
The actual 1940 Air Ministry Weems (locking bezel at 4 o'clock) were quite small (and the earlier Longines ones with the locking bezel at 2 o'clock were even smaller)
So you might want to scale up a bit (against all recent trends!)
There appears to be interest in the Weems. I will open a separate thread about a possible Smiths Weems to play around with the numbers and see if we can convince the powers to be that it is a viable proposition. If I remember correctly, the prs-9 took about 8 years to happen.
Iirc the smaller Weems (civilian and USAF issue) were 27 or 28mm and the 1940 AM ones were still only maybe 30?
And you'd need to have the locking crown and free rotating bezel.[/QUOTE]
The AM ones are 34mm, had one and sold it. I never learn.
Longines did a 1995 re-issue at 36mm (L2.608.4.)
https://www.timeline.watch/watch/199...iton-l2-608-4/
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I’ve just been catching up on this thread and as a long time admirer of the Dreadnought I’d definitely be interested in the slightly smaller model. It’s my birthday in March so no time to waste
Would love to see a Smiths version of the 6105-8000 case with a smaller bezel and dial (a la Doxa 300 but different style of course) - that would really show off the lovely tonneau case shape better than big dial/bezel hiding it.
I'd love to see this glorious watch return to the fold of timefactors stable . One can wish .
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PRS82 GMT?