WristScan

Hello dear friends !

We received few Static shots this time but they deserved to be awarded a nomination and I choose these three for my veredict:

Third place for HighEndOne. His shot of his 70’s Omega Geneve Dynamic with a streamlined mouse as prop reminded me a composition of Sci Fi objects taken from a Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon 1930’s comic strip or B&W movies. 

(Yes! Agree that I have a lot of imagination and nostalgia for my long gone years when I was a lad watching those early pictures in TV of late 1950’s. Younger members in our Forum would think in Star Wars objects! Lol!)

In any case the Dynamic is a watch I like so much.

Now second place goes to 

S F beautiful Pam 249 “THE Cali” with a full of textures as natural background. May be I’m a little biased here as every one here knows my love for the so called “California dials”.

And the first place goes to…

Timeout and his stunning close up of his breathtaking De Bethune DB 25 Starry Varius GMT. He captured the essential details which make the strong character of this superb timepiece in his sharp shot.

Big congrats to winners and to all participants.

Have a nice week ahead dear friends!!

Abel

Here my verdict:

And first goes to Captain Scarlet‘s astounding shot of one of the really lovely dials of HMC 👏🏻

Congratulations to all - many superb entries this week 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

And congratulations to the 1st and 2nd place winners.

All the entries were excellent.

. . . there would be so many to choose from.

As you may know, WotW is primarily decided on the strength of a watch's intrigue.  Wrist Shot and Static Photo are more beauty contests than content, while WotW represents substance over style.  In other words, an aesthetically crude image can be selected WotW.  The chosen theme should also be taken into account, so for this session I was primarily judging submissions based on how deeply the dial affected my senses.

Let's start with the Omega Genèves shared by HighEndOne, enjoythemusic, and Hans.

The striking aspect of the Dynamic is the oval shape of the case, but their dials are no less remarkable, being both distinctive and elegant.  Usually those two attributes are mutually exclusive, but the Dynamic is an exception to the rule.

Ajas shared his Tintin . . .

. . . which I was initially skeptical of because the checkered marker pattern reminded me of the tablecloths in Italian restaurants.  Years later I've come to appreciate this limited edition Speedmaster; definitely a contender for Watch of the Week.

I was taken by aWtchslvr's Montblanc's NR when it was introduced many years ago . . .

. . . and still affected by its 19th century aesthetic.

Hans also shared his cream Ranchero.

Delectable.

enjoythemusic's better half has a flair for aesthetic design.

'Eye-popping' wouldn't do her Laine justice.

Timeout's KV sports . . .

. . . the Robert Taylor . . .

. . . of dials.

And his Lange regulator dial . . .

. . . cuts a mysterious figure.

Watchonthewrist's engraved dial Seiko . . .

. . . brings out the character of its blue hue in a way other treatments would fall short of. 

Chaiwat's AP perpetual . . .

. . . doubly capitalizes on the similarity between aventurine with the night sky and the perpetual complication with the movement of heavenly bodies. 

Kurt's Tudor dial is one that doesn't initially come across as compelling online . . .

. . . but after viewing several new models recently at an AD I've come to appreciate their subtle looks.

I was drawn to all of N's submissions . . .

. . . but as even he probably suspects, that Omega dial (ref 2639?) is tops in my book. 

What can anyone ask for more than . . .

. . . a mint fat arrow?  That's a dial.

Abel hits home runs with Omega . . .

. . . and Rolex.

Two of my all-time vintage favorites, Flightmasters and Explorers, with wonderfully preserved dials.  Magnifico!  And what more can be said about . . .

. . . a chocolate Speedmaster dial?  All three are to die for.

Seiji slew me . . .

. . . with his Kriegsmarine Lange, a dial figuratively and literally to die for.

S F's enamel J•D dial . . .

. . . beams antiquity.  Enormously compelling.

Timerider's Breguet . . .

. . . has a chronograph dial as significant to vintage wristwatch aficionados as the Speedmaster and Hanhart 417.

Cap and Abel shared Tintins . . .

. . . with Ajas.  Suddenly I feel like having pizza for dinner!

Wachnut shared his NR . . .

. . . which, while less decorated than aWtchslvr's, is no less compelling.

All of these dials are intriguing to yours truly.  The one that intrigued most, though, was Seiji's U S Naval Academy Longines.

Gold to Seiji for this Longines, silver to Chaiwat for his AP, and bronze to Timeout for his Lange.  Honorable mention to Seiji for his Lange and Brauner for his Zenith that I should own.

Needless to say, this was an exceedingly difficult session to judge.  When an emergency arose yesterday I realized almost immediately that I wouldn't be able to do justice in the short period of time available. 

Cordially,

Art

 Marc A Mitscher certainly was one of the most important individuals that pioneered Naval Aviation. He was the 33 Naval Aviator of the United States. Here is an early image of him on basically a powered kite not much more capable of flying than the Kitty Hawk. He and Admiral Moffett basically started Naval Aviation by heading the BuNav and BuAero. Without these organizations and their efforts, the US Army would have been the only Air Force of the United States. The Japanese would have won the war in the Pacific because the aircraft carriers would not have existed until much later. 



Not too many people know this, Charles Lindberg was not the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He was the first person to cross the Atlantic nonstop solo. 10 years or so earlier, the US Navy pilots which included Marc A Mitscher were actually the first pilots to cross the Atlantic Ocean successfully in the NC-1 through NC-4. Only the NC-4 made the entire trip. The other three were lost to the sea.





Of course Admiral Mitscher was most famous for defeating the Imperial Japanese Navy sinking the Yamamoto and several of the capital ships. His greatest contribution was the invention of the "Fast Carrier Task Force" which was a new type of tactic that centered around aircraft carriers instead of the then traditional battleships. Air Power won the war in the Pacific not the barrages of the battleship cannons.





I don't know anything about the other two 33mm American Weems. One of them is an ultra rare no lock mechanism gilt dial Annapolis.





It took a bit of effort to prove that the no lock mechanism bezel 1937 33mm Weems exists. I had to find one. I found two. The gilt one is crazy rare. Maybe the only one in existence.