Bremont H-4 Hercules Limited Edition Watch Celebrates Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose Flying Boat

Just announced is the new Bremont H-4 Hercules Limited Edition watch that both celebrates and actually incorporates the famously massive wooden "Spruce Goose" airplane designed by Howard Hughes in the 1940s The story of the Spruce Goose is pretty engrained in American aviation lore, at this point Eventually, the Spruce Goose did take flight for a full 26 seconds, proving that the plane could fly.

Of course, the Spruce Goose is seen as a monument to ingenuity, grit, and ambition rather than the plane that changed the course of the war Everyone knows that aviation is Nick and Giles English's "Thing" and anyone who has met them would absolutely understand why they're drawn to such a larger-than-life story like that of Hughes and the Spruce Goose It's on the caseback that you get some of the Spruce Goose DNA.

When the plane was declared a national treasure and preserved, there was some birchwood veneer that had to be removed from the plane Aileron fabric from the Spruce Goose's control surfaces are sewn into the bridle leather watch packaging. . Source