Japanese Seikosha Pilots Watch - WW2 Military Watch

time flies

Interesting. What do you know of it?

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kfw

LarryG

That’s great!
A true beast at 48mm.
Story?

wsfarrell

Not restricted to kamikaze pilots...
This Is the Seiko Watch Made for Japanese Pilots During WWII (gearpatrol.com)

gatorcpa

I think this is a very similar watch:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/s...apanese-wwii-naval-aviators-watch--201706T29/

The video isn’t working at present, but there is a transcript of the appraisal at the link above.
gatorcpa

Faz

Not many have survived.....😗

snowflake

This watch type was used by the Navy Type 0 carrier fighter pilots. The anchor stamp on the case back shows this was supplied to the navy. Apparently, it was mounted to the thigh rather than the wrist.

M mountainunder

Commonly known as the "天測時計(Tenshoku Clock)" issued to Zero fighter pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific War (World War II).

The engraving on the back cover is "空兵 第八二五三號". I think it means "Airman No. 8253.
On the back of the back cover, you can also see an anchor mark indicating the Navy.

Here is a link to a video about this watch in Japanese, and a link to this watch sold in the past.

https://curious-curio.jp/watch/11834

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M mountainunder

The description of the photo "Rare Photo of Japan's longest serving Kamikaze
Pilot, the 6 mission veteran "Chicken" Teriyaki" is incorrect.
Kamikaze pilots do not return alive from sorties, so they cannot be active for long.
The person in this photo is Nobuo Fujita.