Credit pictures: SSong. The Grana WWW is the responsible of the fact that many of us who want to get the whole Dirty Dozen Collection of Military watches from 1945, issued for the British Army, cannot achieve this collection. Much rarer than the Vertex, C...
The Grana is the most difficult of “The Dozen” to find. Just be aware of the use of radioactive Radium-226 on the dials. All dials produced were black.
While we see every now and then some of the Dirty Dozen, the Grana is always and only in photos !! Very nice one as usual ! BTW, do you have any bad looking vintage in your collection that you could share with us, too frustrating to see how perfect the mo...
. . . never seen one in the metal, so your excellent pics are deeply appreciated. Would love to have just one of the Dirty Dozen, and happiest with this most obscure iteration. There . . . I said it. Not the Omega. The Grana. ;-)
. . . the most compelling movement of the lot, although there's much to recommend the IWC and Omega iterations on that front. But in terms of desirability from a collectors standpoint, the rarest of the breed is personally persuasive. The military I'd mos...
Nothing more than a millimeter here and there, but it’s nice to know what the reality is. So I organized for some samples to be measured to get a definitive answer. Unfortunately I have only a picture with half the samples included as my laptop died and t...
So for example I measured four IWC cases. The biggest two are great original examples, the third is my IWC factory refinished case, and the fourth is a polished example. The polished one was around 0.15mm smaller than an unpolished one. The biggest myster...
But you ideally need a calibrated gauge that will read to X.XX mm. If you’re not sure you can at least spot check your measurement gauge against a brand new coin which has quite tight tolerances. One euro should be 23.25mm and two euro should be 25.75mm. ...