Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Timor Heritage Field

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, and Timor While few, if any, of the WWW.

models actually saw documented combat experience, the relative commonness of the vintage watches in combination with their appealing design have lent them an outsized role in field-watch history, with many watch brands looking to the style today as a key influence on their modern vintage-inspired models Briggs, a British Army veteran, was a massive fan of the Dirty Dozen design scheme, and in collaboration with Aerowatch and the Bolzli family - which owns both Aerowatch and Timor's Swiss trademark - has been developing the new Heritage Field watch, to be released to market in November 2020 Once the watch begins full-scale production, Timor will retail the model at £950, or about $1,245.

The watch uses a sapphire crystal rather than the acrylic one used during wartime - a significantly more wear-resistant material for a modern-day field watch The brand opted to keep the watch historically sized, using a 36.5-mm case over a more modern field watch sizing between 38 and 42 mm, as well as keeping other historic features like the stepped bezel and large crown Its first watch produced under Briggs' leadership, Timor's Heritage Field watch could represent a successful reawakening of the historical British brand. Source