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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 1551672, member: 25"]Trench watches had a metal cover, pierced, over the dial. The term is specific but widely misused.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an early conversion or adaptation as you can see from the pin-set movement, very unusual for a wristwatch. There were no conventions for early wristwatches, thigs took 20 years to settle down to a standard format.</p><p>Anything that worked was made and sold, and some conversions used older watches like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>An early driver's or pilots watch would be worn over clothing, no air-con then, just lots of leather coats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 1551672, member: 25"]Trench watches had a metal cover, pierced, over the dial. The term is specific but widely misused. This is an early conversion or adaptation as you can see from the pin-set movement, very unusual for a wristwatch. There were no conventions for early wristwatches, thigs took 20 years to settle down to a standard format. Anything that worked was made and sold, and some conversions used older watches like this one. An early driver's or pilots watch would be worn over clothing, no air-con then, just lots of leather coats.[/QUOTE]
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