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The incredible charm of the vintage Blancpain Milspec Pakistani Army.
The photos speaks by itself...
Best,
Nicolas
Beautiful 😍 would be great to dig up the history...
Like with Vintage Panerais, officers who wore it, period photos etc.
Most probably they got them through the Green Berets with who they trained in the 60s.
Is that your new addition?
A wonderful example, the mix of milspec brutal use and case and dial elegance is very appealing!
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Quite like their bezel approach. From my perspective it is optimised for surface/field, reducing the risk of the watch hooking obstacles (or parachute lines for that matter). From my limited knowledge there are rather few neo vintage and hardly any (?) present/recent field/dive watches addressing that. They have sacrificed bezel grip not to catch obstacles, and I`d argue that is rather wise when moving towards field usage.
Believe the Germans are the ones paying most attention to this as far as special forces dive watches concerned, (Sinn for the time being), but the Germans have worked on this for decades, for instance the Porsche Design IWC armed forces watches. Muhle Glasshutte addresses similar issues with their SAR Rescue Timers for professional civilian use. One popular present watch oriented towards this kind of usage would be the Tudor FXDs, and they have not prioritised this feature.
Must say, the Milspec Pakistani Army addresses this excellently (probably better than any modern watch with a rotating bezel), and it would be very interesting to see a comparison with the Green Beret edition.
Ahh.... this is great, love it!
Thanks!
Might be the photos playing with my perspective, but it seems to me that the Pakistani iteration has slightly smaller indices and more narrow hands which would make the reading a tad sharper? Probably not, but have they reduced the profile of the acrylic too? Looks like the bezel inlay is slimmed down a bit, the grip tilted and trimmed to a bare minimum and the gaps reduced?
Might be the photos playing with my perspective, but it seems to me that the Pakistani iteration has slightly smaller indices and more narrow hands which would make the reading a tad sharper? Probably not, but have they reduced the profile of the acrylic too? Looks like the bezel inlay is slimmed down a bit, the grip tilted and trimmed to a bare minimum and the gaps reduced?
Suspected that,
Anyway, much obliged for the enlightening, I wasn`t aware that Blancpain performed that level of specialisation/optimisation of the Milspec.
Grail.
Grail.