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Bill Gallagher shows a Hamilton Military Edition pocket watch made for B-17 navigators in World War II. The watch has a GCT dial for Greenwich Civil Time. After the war, they were converted to wristwatches and sold to fund a lawsuit defense.
Bill Gallagher shows a Hamilton Military Edition pocket watch made for B-17 navigators in World War II. The watch has a GCT dial for Greenwich Civil Time. After the war, they were converted to wristwatches and sold to fund a lawsuit defense.
And the Military Edition is a World War II pocket watch that was used by the Army Air Corps, specifically by the navigators on the bomber aircraft. I say B17, but any bomber aircraft in World War II that had a navigator on board would have had one of these pocket watches. And it's kind of ironic because Hamilton is the manufacturer that made all of these. It doesn't say Hamilton on the dial. But to answer a previous question, when we were trying to figure out how to finance the company through this lawsuit, we realized, like, all they cared about was their name on the front. All these Military Edition watches say GCT on the front, which is Greenwich Civil Time. And it's a standard black dial. And so it wasn't wrong in anyone's eyes to take these and turn these into wristwatches. And so we released the Military Edition, really in order to raise money for the lawsuit and, like, defend ourselves.
