Choose from four plans for different preferences. The Watch of the Month Club provides unique, high-quality watches from watchmakers worldwide at great prices. Here are the top five watch clubs to get you started. Some watch clubs allow you to create a profile so they can handpick watches to suit your taste and budget. Wear the watches you collect, trade them, sell them, or pass your precious timepieces on as heirlooms. To ensure that the authorization of your credit card is valid for the entire payment period, the authorization will be renewed every 21 days.Are you new to watch collecting or looking to begin this fascinating hobby? Joining a monthly subscription watch club is the way to go. However, a payment authorization for the outstanding amount of your purchase will be held during the full payment period.Īfter each monthly payment, the amount held from your available balance will be reduced to the new remaining balance (the held amount might appear as “pending”). The remaining balance will be held on your credit card until the final payment has been made. At the time of shipping, only the first installment will be charged to your credit card. Splitit authorizes the total order value-but don’t worry, this is not taken in full when you complete the purchase. To use this payment method all you need a credit card with a sufficient amount of available credit. This service is free, involves no credit checks or applications, and means you can choose to split your payment into monthly installments. Splitit allows you to split the total payment over a maximum of twelve months using your credit card. The tail of the seconds hand is shaped like the propellers of the Mk IX Spitfire, and even the strap buckle is a modern reworking of the original buckle on the ‘Dirty Dozen’ watches. The exhibition case-back reveals a rotor decorated to resemble the riveted “skin” of an aircraft wing. Clear Arabic numerals, luminous hour and minute hands, luminous hour markers, a shatterproof crystal and a traditional broad arrow reference to the government-issued watches of the day.įinally, we placed the battle-scarred Spitfire aluminum center stage in the design, right above 6 o´clock with an integrated date function, adding depth and uniqueness to each timepiece and ensuring that no two RJM watches look the same.Ī wealth of further subtle design references – that you might miss at first glance – are built into each RJM watch. Our goal was to create a modern version of the so-called ‘Dirty Dozen’ watches, the name given to a group of 12 watches commissioned by the British Ministry of Defense and worn by British soldiers during the Second World War. In contrast, we wanted the dial of the RJM to capture the experience of sitting inside a Spitfire but with a nod to the watches worn by RAF pilots of the era. This also allowed for a diamond crown design typical of both modern and vintage pilot-inspired timepieces. The crown itself is inspired by the aircraft’s nose cone, including the indents where the propeller blades are mounted. The crownguard is decorated with the internal spars and ribs that made the wings so light yet strong. PT879 is the only Spitfire ever to have returned from service in Russia, earning her the nickname “the Russian Spit”. Over half a century later, in 1998, the battered warbird was finally recovered in Murmansk as a complete but crashed aircraft. While there is no evidence to suggest this was the fate that befell PT879, we do know that this aircraft crashed during a dogfight in spring of 1945 with just 29 logged hours on the airframe, and was recovered from the Russian tundra by an unnamed farmer. The Russian Spitfire squadrons suffered heavy losses due to friendly fire as the British aircraft looked similar to the German Bf 109. PT879 was one of around 1118 Mk IX Spitfires delivered to Murmansk as part of the Allied Forces’ Lend-Lease policy to support the Russian war effort. The RJM Collection incorporates salvaged parts from a Spitfire Mk IX aircraft with serial number PT879, which boasts a truly remarkable story – even for an already rare vintage aircraft. Sadly, of the approximately 20,000 Spitfires built between 19, fewer than 100 original aircraft are currently estimated to be operational and in airworthy condition. Little did Mitchell know that the Supermarine Spitfire would go on to be produced across 24 marks and become the only British fighter aircraft to be in continuous production before, during and after the Second World War.
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