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The Marathon GSAR is not a watch that made its reputation through marketing. It made it through government procurement. The GSAR — Government Search and Rescue Automatic — is developed to …

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Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH was founded in Frankfurt in 1961 by Helmut Sinn, a pilot and flight instructor who understood what a watch needed to do in a cockpit. The first Sinn watches were navigation inst …

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CWC — the Cabot Watch Company — is the least famous watch brand most serious military watch collectors know by name. Founded in Huddersfield in 1972 by Ray Mellor, a former UK Managing Dir …

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The Hamilton Jazzmaster is the watch that most clearly expresses the tension at the heart of the Hamilton brand. Hamilton was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892 and built its reputation supply …

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The Seiko Turtle is one of the most immediately recognisable dive watches in production — and one of the few watches whose nickname was not applied by marketing but by the shape of the case itse …

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Baltic Watches was founded in Paris by Etienne Malec, who grew up around his father's collection of vintage timepieces and set out to recreate the specific character of 1950s and 1960s dive watches at …

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