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1917 Waltham Depollier Pre-Khaki Trench Watch. An incredible watch, from an incredible watch case maker. This Pre-Khaki Depollier was the earlier mode...
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Rolex COPIES Depollier, Again
ROLEX COPIES DEPOLLIER AGAIN!!! Once again a Charles Depollier innovation was copied by Rolex, this time Depollier did it 83 YEARS BEFORE Rolex! In 20...
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Remembering Charles Depollier, an American Horologist Light Years Ahead of his Time
Charles L. Depollier passed away 83 years ago today. One of the photos you'll see is Depollier's very simple obituary, it did NOT do the man ANY justi...
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An Aviation World Record, a Waltham Depollier Watch and a Lie
104 years ago today, Roland Rohlfs, Chief Test Pilot for the Curtis Airplane Company, set a new flight altitude world record of 34,610 feet in the Cur...
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Charles Depollier's 1917 Booklet, "The Watch in the Trenches"
Somebody on Instagram asked me about Charles Depollier's 1917 booklet "The Watch in the Trenches" after I posted an advertisement that mentioned the b...
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WWI U.S. Army Surplus Watches Sold to the General Public
104 years ago today! On February 22, 1919 the Elgin "Star Dial" Trench Watches were made available to the general public. A major campaign to sell the...
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Rolex was NOT the World's First Waterproof Watch, US Army Documents Contradict their Story
I've decided to release one of the United States Army documents I found in the United States National Archives pertaining to Charles Depollier waterpr...
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Book Review, “The Inconvenient Truth about the World’s First Waterproof Watch” by Stan Czubernat
Mr. Bruce Shawkey was kind enough to read and review my latest book. Bruce is the recipient of the NAWCC James W. Gibbs Award for Horological Literary...
Book Review, “The Inconvenient Truth about the World’s First Waterproof Watch” by Stan Czubernat
Book review by Bruce Shawkey.
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