General Service Time Piece?

[Simon]

Does anyone amongst the membership of this fine forum service and repair watches?

Cheers,

Simon

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[Brian Dick]

Try gsimmons in Hendersonville, NC, USA. Just up the road a piece, (about 2.5 hrs), from here.

[gsimmons]

Simon,
I'd be willing to have a look.
PM me if interested, thank you.

[Peter Laidler]

From my experience, it's your lucky day Simon.

[Simon]

From my experience, it's your lucky day Simon.

On two counts Peter if I'm not mistaken? A reasonably rare find watch, part of the original 4(T) CES, and someone with the skills to repair a mechanical timepiece.

Cheers,

Simon.

[Peter Laidler]

Was it part of the original CES. We always had the old WWW (Watches, Wristlet, Waterproof) wristwatches in my time

[Simon]

Apologies for the crappy photo alignment but I didn't want to damage the spine of the manual I scanned it from, the same pic is on page 146 of "The British Sniper". The photo shows a layout of issued items and No9 is clearly a G.S.T.P. pocket watch.

Cheers,

Simon.

[bigduke6]

I lost out on a bid a while back on a GSTP Omega... but the marking on the back was or seems standard compared to that one. (being a past owner of a Speedmaster Professional, Omega ticks all the box's for me)

[gsimmons]

I had (brother stole it, I mean has it) an Elgin with a black radium dial, but it was only marked with a serial number on the back.
Yes, Omega's are one of my favourites.

[Peter Laidler]

Got that Simon. Yep, that 1951 sniper Inf Trg book was well before my time

Ah, yes, Omega. We had a saying about them when we had them coming through our instrument shops.
If you are simply rich, then get a Rolex (we didn't have Army Rolex's...).
If you were rich with style, then get an Omega (which we had)
If you are rich with style and want reliability, then get a Longines (which we also had).

Strangely, some of our issue WWW Omegas didn't have the name on the dial, just the number 10033. This was the VAOS number of W10-VB 10033 that indicated an Omega wristwatch