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Britain build Japanese ships and asked to fight Germany.
This maybe an interesting article that shows that the British build many ships for the Imperial Japanese Navy and asked Japan to fight the German Navy
en.wikipedia.org
Imperial_Japanese_Navy#:~:text=Ships%20such%20as%20the%20Fus%C5%8D,also%20emerged%20around%20this%20time.
Follow up on the Imperial Japanese Navy Interwar Chronograph #278 (Edouard Heuer 102 A)
After some comparative studies with other watch information available on the internet, we are able to determine that the S.Smith&Son chronograph with the Imperial Japanese Navy identifier #278 is a Ed. Heuer Ref 102 A. This watch was most likely procured ...
Maybe not luxury but more valuable
for their history and the research, story that you tell us. Thank you.
My daily wearer is a Protek quartz watch.
I believe your watches fit extremely well in a site like this. No need to be luxury to interest people (or at least to interest me :-D )
Another fantastic post and history lesson.
Much appreciated, I look forward to further posts.
Very interesting reading about Lord Sempill and the Sempill mission.
Never knew that part of the history between Imperial Japan and Great Britain. Great sleuthing on the Heuer movement! Any insights on G W Gladman, and/ or his W.E.C. colleagues from the S&M branch?
Britain build Japanese ships and asked to fight Germany.
This maybe an interesting article that shows that the British build many ships for the Imperial Japanese Navy and asked Japan to fight the German Navy Imperial_Japanese_Navy#:~:text=Ships%20such%20as%20the%20Fus%C5%8D,also%20emerged%20around%20this%20tim...