Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Timor Heritage Field
Field watches are one of my favorite categories of timepieces. Purpose built, utilitarian, and aggressively no-frills, these watches were designed for specific jobs, and have a long and storied history of facing down each. The last time we covered a field watch in this series was over a year ago, when we examined the Weiss 38-mm Standard Issue Field Watch, an interesting American-made watch that brought a vintage-inspired field-watch design into a modern format. This week we?ll be taking a closer look at the Timor Heritage Field, an upcoming modern re-issue channeling the look of the famed ?Dirty Dozen? design from the 1940s.
The ?Dirty Dozen? is the name given collectively to the 12 watches from 12 Swiss watch firms that produced the “W.W.W.” design for the British military toward the end of World War II. These original 12 included models from Buren, Cyma, Eterna, Grana, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lemania, Longines, Omega, Record, Vertex (vintage model pictured above), and Timor. This wartime design spec, which stood for ?Wrist, Watch, Waterproof,? called for watches between 35 and 38 mm in diameter, with a black dial with luminous dial features, a steel or chrome waterproof case, a shatterproof crystal, and a 15-jewel chronometer-grade movement, among a few other requirements, such as each carrying the Broad Arrow symbol that designated it as British military property. While few, if any, of the W.W.W. models actually saw documented combat experience, the relative...
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