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#BENRUS WATCH SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERS#

#BENRUS WATCH SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERS#

Selected production date tables and serial number projects (where a site tries to aggregate serial numbers from visitors who submit watch information) are shown below. Well, I hope you enjoy the scans.Serial, case and movement numbers, if available, can assist in dating your timepiece and the authentication process when purchasing. They do however share the same case design and have very similar dial appearances. To sum it up, the GG-W-113 military watches are what I'd refer to as a higher class version of MIL-W-46374 field watches. Once again, if you know what they mean, please let me know. But I do not know what all the rest of numbers mean. Here's the inscriptions found on Hamilton GG-W-113 issued in 1987: This is the inscriptions found on the caseback of Benrus GG-W-113 issued in 1971: Okay, then let's move on to the military specification and serial number inscriptions found on the casebacks of GG-W-113 watches. And legibility is a critical issue for pilots sitting inside a cockpit filled with tons of gauges and dials. Well, anyway, one thing is sure though, and that is that all of the differences listed above seem to focus on making the GG-W-113 watches more legible and accurate than MIL-W-46374 watches. A Japanese watch magazine that did a special issue on military watches stated in one of their articles that most of the military specifications were documented at Picatinny Arsenal located in New Jersey. I doubt they are classified, but perhpas they are only available to US citizens.

If there is anyone who can help me in locating the specifications documents, please let me know. I am sure there are more differences to the GG-W-113 specification, but unless I can obtain an actualdocument detailing the GG-W-113 military specification, those are the major differences I could find. Note that these are only from personal observation.

Watches were normally issued with black (instead of olive drab) nylon band, although some were issued with olive drab band in Vietnam.

H3 and propellar shaped radiation marks were omitted from the dial to make the dials more legible.

MIL-W-46374 did not have the hack feature until the mid-eighties.

Equipped with a 17 jewel manual-wind movement, it had the desirable hack feature, allowing precise synchronization of watches to a known source of time.

The GG-W-113 watches, however, differed in the following aspects: Both GG-W-113 and MIL-W-46374 watches were equipped with manual-wind movements. Same case, same hands were used, along with the usual 24 hour markings on a black dial. MIL-W-46374 specification) that were issued to soldiers on the ground. The GG-W-113 watches had striking resemblances to military field watches (made under These watches were manufactured under government contract by various American watch companies such as Benrus, Hamilton, and Waltham.ġ971 Benrus GG-W-113 with olive drab nylon band Since the Vietnam war, the US Air Force had issued military watches, made under GG-W-113 specification, to their pilots. Gg-w-113 GG-W-113 Military Watches by Hamilton and Benrus GG-W-113 Military Watches by Hamilton and Benrus