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$12,000 Pilot's Watch Made from Fighter Plane Parts

British luxury watch brand Bremont's new pilot's watch, the EP120, is made with parts of a famous RAF 1942 Spitfire Mk V fighter plane which shot down six enemy aircraft on a single day during WWII. Original pieces of the Spitfire, which has been featured in films such as The Battle of Britain, salvaged during restoration, are incorporated into the EP120's dial and movement. The limited edition timepiece, which has already been spotted on the wrists of Bremont fans like Orlando Bloom and Ewan McGregor, costs about $12,600 and will be available in September.

[via Men.Style]

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Bremont Watches

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Bremont is a new British watch company that creates manly tough watches. Nick and Giles English are behind the company which makes watches using Swiss components and hand-assembled by watchmakers in an atelier in Biel-Bienne. The English brothers are professional aviators and the company is named after Antoine Bremont, a former WWII pilot the brothers met who was also obsessed with watches. The watches use stainless steel cases made to a hardness of 2000 Vickers ( nine times as durable as an average steel watch case). They have sapphire crystals and COSC-certified chronometers. The initial watches include three chronograph models and two 'three-hander' models, the BS-S1 and BS-F1. Each model has been tested out by professional adventurers such as Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman (remember their motorcyle show), mountaineer Bear Grylls, round-the-world yachtsman Mike Golding, Everest climber Jake Meyer and naturally Nick and Giles English and pilots of the elite US Navy Test Pilot School. 1,000 of each watch will be produced each year and all watches will be offered with a wooden box, spare strap, strap changiing tool and Chronometer certificate. The ALT1-C model will be out in June and has BE-50AE (base ETA) self-winding movement inside a 43mm diameter case. It sells for £2,950. The ALT1-P and ALT1-Z are after the jump and sell for £2,650 and £2,750.

[via Time Zone]

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