May 10, 2016

Working class "Start" watch

Vintage "Start" 88/2 a.k.a. "poor man's Omega" on a "Bond" nylon NATO strap... While this is obviously a mismatch in several categories, I somehow like this combo and it feels at home on my wrist like it used to sit there for decades...


My "Start" originates somewhere between 1960 and 1962, so it appeared just before this three-colour strap pattern was featured in an early James Bond movie, adorning the famous spy's classy "Rolex Submariner". This strap is actually 20mm wide, while the lug width is 18mm - in the "007" movie the mismatch was just the opposite: narrow strap and wide lugs! So-called "NATO strap" design did not emerge until the early 1970's in the UK and I've never found even similar strap type / pattern originally supplied with any USSR-made watch.

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