Tockr D-Day C-47 Watches Built with Salvaged WWII Aircraft Parts
Along with a number of other anniversaries being commemorated by the watch world in 2019 (we’re looking at you, Omega, Zenith, and probably others to come), this year also marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II in 1944. And it is Texas-based Tockr that has taken up the gauntlet of producing a very special timepiece that pays living tribute to this milestone in American military history. Here’s what you need to know about the D-Day C-47 Limited Editions and what sets them apart from today’s pack of military-inspired watches.
The Tockr D-Day C-47 Watch
The watches are the result of a collaboration between Tockr, a boutique aviation-watch brand founded in 2017 in Austin, TX, by Austin Ivey, grandson of a WWII pilot, and the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), a Dallas-based non-profit devoted to preserving U.S. aviation history. The CAF has undertaken a project to refurbish the historic C-47 warplane That’s All Brother, which led the famed D-Day mission, and restore it to flight-ready condition. The process involved removed damaging aluminum portions of the plane and replacing them, and rather than simply discard this material, the CAF reached out to Tockr, which had previously produced a pilots’ model based on the C-47, an aircraft that Ivey’s grandfather actually flew during World War II. The watch company fabricated the damaged aluminum segments into watch dials and the rest is, one ...
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