Horological Meandering

I thought I would do something different for a change. This post is not about the background history of a watch. This post is about the existence of a rather rare animal. It is the "Gold Dennison C.O.S.D." and other variants. Here is my example that I hav...  

. . . which I've never seen before. I wonder how many were made. Stunned, Art

This is an ongoing project and is frequently reviewed by members of the Military Watch Resource MWR which is It's regularly viewed by thousands of people so most likely pretty up to date. They tell me when I get it wrong :p Hummm, can't seem to get it to...  

. . . please let me know!

When people find one, all hell breaks loose and it is an Internet Party! This one was just found! Look at that radium burn from 80 years of sitting somewhere. No one cares if id even runs!! It's just such a rare and one of the first Commando watches in h...  

My close encounter with one of these tuna cans was in HK a month or two ago: Best Gatsby ...  

Wow! I want to see that book! I have searched for the operations manual for the COSD and have not found one that is of the right time period. Everything from command operations to the types of landing craft and signal operations are in these manuals. The ... 

Just these three are mine. The "prototype", gold, and Tuna mutt. More pictures of other peoples Omega C.O.S.D. ...  

This is the Omega And here is the Longines Any other use of these where they are described as jumping out of airplanes is really just nonsense repeated and copied without any research. ...  

New ones are born every year You just have to wait a while :P It's a tough watch to buy my friend. They are so expensive and there are people finding at junk auctions in the UK fresh sets of empty Tuna cases. I think late last year someone found 5 tuna ca... 

These are the typical extracts and the way they are phrased to mean "COSD". Longines can't say they are for COSD because they don't know what happened to the movements after they were sold to UK. This is the early author of one of the most popular early b...