One of Our Favorite WWII-Era Military Watches is Back

The W.W.W watch of 1945 was produced for the British military by 12 different manufacturers, which lead to its modern nickname, "The Dirty Dozen" Though it can hardly have seen combat given both its intended user base and its late production date, the WWW.

was manufactured to high standards for its time, and has become one of the most beloved military field watches of the 20th century Though several of the Dirty Dozen manufacturers were big players in the watch industry, such as Omega, some of them were smaller operations that went out of existence entirely during the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s, or simply went dormant for many years through the past few decades Established in Switzerland in 1923, the company largely disappeared in the 1970s, returned to manufacture some pocket watch models for the Asian markets in the early 2000s, and subsequently disappeared again.

Now, Timor is back to revive its crowning achievement - one of the Dirty Dozen watches of 1945 Each watch will come with both a modern NATO strap and an AF0210, the canvas webbing strap originally issued with many military watches during WWII Though MSRP on the new Heritage Field will be ~$1,231, you can order yours for ~$843 once the Kickstarter opens.

Finding an original W.W.W watch isn't all that difficult - certain manufactures produced them in limited numbers, and some produced roughly 20,000 pieces. . Source