Epic MilitariaWW2 British Army Style Military Service Watch - The Dirty Dozen

It would be nice if the band was more of a classic canvas.

Bought this watch in mid April and it already stopped working, it only looks good but not worth it.

Looks great, my husband loved it!

Granted, it went through the washing machine, but, the pieces were plastic and it fell apart like a pretend, toy watch. I've never seen a watch (even going through the washing machine) come out in 4 tiny plastic pieces. This was two weeks after purchase. I'm quite convinced it wouldn't have been functioning two weeks more. It was a joke. Walk away from this rip off scam. No, run!

Hands do not glow, numbers do not glow, long delivery time as it comes from the U.K. Not at all worth the 105$, would be much better off to get a watch from MWC online, they offer a great variety of Dirty Dozen style watches.

I don't normally do reviews but I was very impressed with the watch. It is a very good quality, faithful homage to the inordinately expensive originals. I bought the watch not really knowing what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised. I changed the NATO strap that came with it - good quality strap. I just don't like NATO straps - too much overlapping material for my liking. I swapped the strap for a Fullmosa khaki canvas which I think works very well with the style of the watch. Before it had even arrived, I knew I was going to dull the watch case metal with a scotch pad. The case was originally very shiny. I am extremely pleased now with the end result. Took about 45mins of careful buffing to achieve the matt finish I was after. No complaints at all with this watch. Cost me £53.95 and it could easily pass for a watch at twice the price. Some of the modern Dirty Dozen iterations cost around £1200-1500. No need to go to such expense if you want to recreate the look. People talk about the lume being poor on these watches. I have included a lume shot for reference. It's fair to say the lume fades quickly, but what do you expect for just over £50. I find it amusing how people fixate about the lume on these homages - take a look at photos of actual original period watches. The old radium is so degraded it has even flaked off the dial and I doubt whatever paint is left emits much luminescence if any. That's watch snobbery and silliness for you!! Charge someone a small fortune for an item that has seen better days and make them feel really happy about parting with their cash LOL. Anyway I hope the review helps. Case size is about 38mm. Strap lug width 20mm.

The watch does have lume on hour/minute hands, and both the numbers and their index markers, but it's output is weak compared to my other watches. Having said this, there are no further minuses for this watch. It has a quartz movement so there are no concerns over it's accuracy, and it's appearance is a reasonable reproduction of the actual watches issued in WW2 to the British army. It comes with a NATO strap which isn't period, though it is now possible to buy an accurate reproduction of the canvas strap that came with the actual watches issued in WW2.Overall, given it's price, this watch is good value for money.Update 3/12/21 - The diameter of the case appears to be 37.5mm, not 40mm as listed in the item description. Lug to lug distance is 43.2mm.

This is an affordable way to get a "dirty dozen" style watch on your wrist. I love the way that this watch looks & real ones are too expensive & fragile to wear regularly however, after a few days of wear I noticed there was a mark on the crystal that wouldn't rub off, under close scrutiny I found quite a lot of debris & fluff under the crystal & on the dial itself which is a little annoying but you don't really see it when worn normally. When seen under certain lighting conditions there are also many smears & spots on the underside of the crystal which cannot be removed, once you've seen them you can't unsee them, it looks like someone sneezed on the underside of the crystal which is gross & disappointing even on a £50 watch. If I hadn't already worn it quite a bit I would probably return it, I'm probably going to try & clean it myself at this point but it shouldn't be necessary even on a cheaper watch. Despite these problems I still enjoy wearing the watch it really is a looker, it's just unfortunate that I'll have to take it apart & clean it to make it decently presentable. Fun but flawed. Maybe I was just unlucky. On a side note the watch is 37-38mm across not 40mm as stated.

good watch however mine came and wore it for 2 weeks and the seconds hand fell off a few times and the minuite hand moved a few millimetres when you moved the watch left and right i suppose my watch was a bad egg but sent it back and full refund but couldnt buy it again as it was out of stock so would recommend just be weary