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One year of making for a 22 minutes video. That’s what I would call dedication.

The ZRC Grands Fonds 300 really speaks to me, and it gives me the feeling of being a true toolwatch with selfcleaning bezel, the crown "blocking" bracelet, the giant hands and not saving on the lume application.

'Probably in a years time' love your dry sarcastic humor. Quality overview sir. Keep it up 👍

The "No Radiations" on the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms means I can go into Chernobyl unscathed right? ;)

Extremely well researched. 👏👏👏

Fascinating episode. Thank you for your hard work researching and producing this lesson, always enjoy your videos.. Such a shame Tudor used generic lume plots with it's modern BBs, the Square markers (a la Pelagos and earlier divers) just work so much better with the beautiful snowflake hands. Gotta love a military watch, for me it's coz there's no bs, nothing superfluous - just a rugged easy to read tool. Thanks again, great work 👍🏻👍🏻

All of these watches, being designed for a purpose and nice for style, is what I find appealing. I gravitate to the simple watch, 3 hands, easy to read. I have watches with more complications, but seldom use the complications . They really are “timeless “.

The Tudor Submariner is definitely my favourite of the bunch, I have the 94400, but my wife wears most of the time as the size suites her perfectly. I think that the military watch style was always in fashion due to wars and due to military being more in popular than now.

How timely! I have a Breguet Type XX arriving today. I can watch this while I wait for the delivery driver!!! Thanks! :-)

Your Military Video was EPIC, WOW 🤩 loved 🥰 it, have seen it three times…watched it when it dropped. Seen it with Dad. And watched it with Mum, she loved 🥰 it as well and the ZRC made want to get our watches out again & give them another go as she loves the dials. Well done 👍, was worth the wait, a whole new level 🤜🇫🇷❤️. As you know IDGuy I love Dirty Dozen & Military Watches they form a large part of my collection, you cover the history of the French brilliantly ✊.

First off, i’m too old to suddenly discover a passion for these vintage pieces. So stop it. That being said, you knocked it out of the park again on this one. Spectacular variety of pieces presented wonderfully

Fantastic review!

Interesting video, a refreshingly substantive departure from much of the lightweight watch content on youtube.

I love the marine national Yema. They have beautiful design

Another outstanding video IDGuy! I love military watches and your series on military watches are some of the best on KZfaq. Thank you!

Hi IDGuy, another outstanding video. The research must have taken an age. One small point, with respect, there were Free French Forces during WW2. My Father served in the Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL. The French crew were very motivated.

Apart from their strong heritage, Hanhart is a lovely company to do business with.

As a really broad generalization, the Casio F-91W is probably the best watch for most of armed forces. I always wore one and made sure the soldiers in my squad had one on. Yes, there are definitely better, more useful and situational watches; but for $20, you can’t really ask for more.

Usual very high quality video 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Fantastici, iconici, senza tempo!

just a comment to let you know how much we appreciate the amount of work you put into these. thoroughly interesting.

Very interesting video and featuring some really great pieces too.

Great video. One of your best.

Absolutely nailed it @idguy! I can't imagine the amount of research needed to bring this great vid out. Congrats and thanks !!! Cheers from France ;)

Wow, lots of work gone into this, well done.

Brilliant content, my favorit watch channel 2021

I learn so much from each of your videos! All the hard work is greatly appreciated. Brilliant video, my friend! 👏👊

Very cool & informative video.

Great history series. Thank you.

Another informative entry for this great series, even with those persistent gaps in public record. The Tudor MN watches being off the shelf service ready recalls both your musings on the "beater watch" and the anecdote of Citizen's supplier contact with Italy's marina militare. Re: beaters, its amazing how robust watches are especially with contemporary manufacture techniques, but even 'vintage' pieces had more durability when initially made than we might think. & I believe that's some of the lasting appeal of mechanicals: its a good that remains outside consumerist planned obsolescence. re: Citizen, they had a decade+ contract with Italy's Marina Militare supplying dive watches to frogmen/ incursion divers. In the bidding phase, Citizen submitted for testing off the shelf NY0040 Promaster Divers, rated ISO 200m. Presumably with the idea that they'd fail but that failure would guide how to adjust manufacturing to meet spec. Well the stock models passed the MM testing up to/just beyond 500m, that's how overbuilt a contemporary ISO diver turned out to be.

What an exceptional video!! That’s me off to do more research. Thanks for all the hard work that obviously went into producing this video and others that you have done. A different class.

Amazing work, simply demonstrates to me how little I know. 🥃

Simply brilliant video. So much information. Thank you.

Good to hear Dodane get name checked - even in passing. Still make fantastic watches. Have one as my daily - has been flawless.

Bravo @idguy, a masterpiece of a video, learnt so much from this, and saw pieces I've never seen before

Absolutely superb video. Thank you, IDGuy!

Great informative vid ID Guy! Awesome

Very cool video man. I love and have a deep appreciation for military issued and dove watches. The more “toolish” looking the more I love it. You left out a couple of really great ones. Sinn and Marathon.

My wife and wallet condemn you for this informative and titillating episode.

Putting all this together is really an amazing effort and very detailed work in top quality. I enjoyed every minute. Thank you for that! The one guy that gave the thumbs down is probably the one that can not swim.

Epic

Had to do it - First almost ,😊

Great job as always and wealth of information.

Love these videos. Well done, as usual.

Watches of the French Armed Forces or "Best watches to wear when surrendering" ;) I kid I kid

Fascinating, well researched and presented history. Thanks so much 🙏

Thank you for the time and effort. Glad I’m not in your company,and start talking about watches 🙈. That would be real embarrassing!Respect where it’s due. Fantastic piece of watch history 👏👏

A very educational video IDGuy, much appreciated thank you. I find it interesting that modern technology can actually become a barrier for the military application as you mention G-Shock models cannot have Bluetooth as the radio can be used for positioning. I also find myself drawn more and more towards the 'classic' style watches of yesteryear. Watches that are super easy to read at a glance and in may cases almost devoid of text. Longines is a good example at doing exactly this with mating classic styles with modern technologies.

Outstanding. I love field watches. They are an all around watch. They go with jeans and a t-shirt to a suit & tie. They are robust and yet elegant.

another excellent epic

Been waiting on this for a loooong tiiiimeeee ALLOOOONS

@13:13 Image of that Tudor is so P01 but its look suggests the literal side of a submarine!

Interesting review: branhart is new to me. thanks

Brilliant!👏🏼

I am glad you keep mentioning the MOD Omega Seamaster. A reissue would be brilliant. It will also be interesting to see what Tudor cooks up for their new MN cooperation, maybe a black dialed Pelagos with a dark blue bezel in a 40mm case?

pièce de résistance ;) Outstanding research. EMSEC ( emission security) is increasingly problematic. Look for the new Tudor MN launch on Sep 1 onboard “ Charles de Gaulle “.

Well done!

Don’t forget to cover the straps the French military used. Such as the French Marine Nationale.

I keep going back and forth on if I want to purchase the new Yema collaboration because I love the no date but I wish I'd be able to see it in person first.

Very informative video. Are there any books available on the history of dive watches?

Dodane FTW :)

The Blancpain dive watch timeline has been revised a little by Perez Cope

Sign me up, I’m buying the Breguet from 12:20. So interesting to see that name on the dial with Mercedes hands.

YEMA YEMA YEMA!

About to buy a breguet type xx

A great historical essay and well integrated images. Wasn't the Marine Nationale's last active service to blow up Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior? Some very distinguished watches, a most undistinguished military. For sure, all Services have their dark history, but some are more shabby than others. 1940s-1980s: the glory days of their watches and the most inglorious of their military. Despite the state crippling spend. On watches? Odd that some of the most famous military watches are linked to abhorrent regimes or indefensible campaigns (Nazi Fleigers, Fascist Panerais, the French in North Africa, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and then America in Vietnam...)? Or perhaps the glory days of watches just coincided with some terrible times. At least the Swiss watch companies profited.

Every watch being made today, while (maybe) having a purpose, is primarily built to make a profit. That cannot be said about these pieces. I think that’s why they seem so striking. Differing visions of purpose seems so interesting..sales be damned

Trivia question: When was the French military last involved in anything?

Terrific Stuff ! Obviously from my Username; this area of the hobby is of special interest to me. Regardless, at the risk of over playing my hand - "Please, Sir, I want more." ;-)

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The popularity amuses me. I was in the 🇬🇧army for 24 years. The only people I find that wear this sort of thing or hanker after it are civvys; armchair/keyboard warriors. No one I served with had the least interest…..draw your own conclusions.

Honestly the French armed forces did not acquit themselves well in WWII against the Axis (which is why they were so quickly occupied), so no inspiring history there. Nice watches though.