Re: US General Issue wrist watch

Check with Jack Kurdzionak at www.thewatchmaker.com for Glycine watches. He
is an authorized U.S. distributor. This brand is fairly well known for 24
hour dial military style wristwatches.

"Mooron" <mooron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Colin wrote:
>> I think this topic has been in this group before. Sorry for the
>> duplication, but I am interested in those GI watches that the US GIs are
>> issued(?) or buy from the PX. They have tritium hands and basic,
>> military
>> dials. I saw one recently on a friend of mine who just got back from
>> Afghanistan. It looked cool to me, but to him it was just a field watch
>> appropriate for long term deployment in far flung parts of the world. He
>> wouldn't sell it to me.
>>
>> Is there a way to get it from the manufacturer? Who makes it? Can
>> service
>> members buy it from the PX? If so, anyone know the protocol about asking
>> a
>> service member to get me one? Having been rejected from the US Army
>> years
>> ago due to a recent bout with cancer, I have never had the honor of
>> service
>> and almost everyone I know in the service is deployed right now.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> There are some dealers who specialize in military style watches.
> Check these out:
> http://www.westcoastime.com/
> http://www.mwrforum.net/cgi-bin/mwr.pl
>
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> Mooron
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