Everything from Tiger Moths, Expeditors and Ansons through T-33s to CF-100s, He flew from 1938 to 1958. His final at the stick flight was in a glider at 80.
Serious congratulations. It's a respectable accomplishment (among other things, my late dad was a career RCAF flight instructor/pilot) Good on ya.
And I understand about smaller watches.
Enicar (and Titoni) are both brands with a very high presence in China over the last, say, 80 years. 2nd hand watches from both brands are common. So are redials and rebuilds etc--but also, so are completely and fully legit examples.
I think they didn't leave the factory like that, with the rocket hands.
My theory--and I could be wrong--is that (similar to watches with "to serve the people" where there absolutely were legit originals that left the factories with the red inscription back in the day) the vast majority of available "TSTP" examples are redials to increase marketablity, and the vast majority of rocket second hands are rebuilds/added later.
And they're all very cool, even if not completely historically authentic.
I think the rocket second hands were originally Hongqi.
The rocket second hands may have some connection to the Hongqi named series of surface-to-air missiles (variants of the Soviet Dvina system), but that's conjecture on my part.
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