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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
It's a rolex homage watch with most likely Chinese parts & case and cheaper swiss quartz movement in it which ticks and requires a battery. It's not anything decent horologically speaking but it does have a cool factor if you were part of the Snowbirds. I would treat this more like a commemorative souvenir item than any solid time piece. I would get it just so that if someone asked, you could say that you were in the Canadian Forces Snowbirds.
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That's kinda what I was thinking it looks like a nice piece but probably nothing more than a souvenier.
I already have this one
https://www.fratellowatches.com/is-t...all-time/#gref but it needs a service and the glowy parts have stained due to some moisture ingress. I came in out of the cold one day and the bezel had fogged up. Breitling can't replace the Snowbird face and offered me a traditional one so it's going to remain tainted.
I was a technician on the team back in 95-96, spent two years on the road travelling Canada and the US. It was quite the gig as back then it was a self sustained Sqn with only 11 pilots and 10 techs.
