Eterna - Heritage Military 1939

 

We recently wrote about the Longines Heritage 1935, a model inspired to the watch originally created in the 1930s for aviators in the Czech Air Force. Actually, Longines was not the only supplier of the Czech Armed Forces. In fact, also Eterna and Lemania produced these cushion-shaped military watches, known by collectors as the Majetek, from the caseback engraving "Majetek Vojenske Spravy" which means, more or less, "Property of the Military Administration".

 

The new Eterna Heritage Military 1939 pays tribute to this glorious model of the past with two case variations. 

 

The first (reference 1939.41.46.1298), combined to a black leather strap, features a brushed and polished steel case which frames a black dial with green luminescent hands and Arabic numerals while the second (reference 1939.43.46.1299) has a black PVD treatment and is completed by a brown leather strap. 

 

 

Compared to the original model, the main differences are the larger 40 mm case (versus 38 mm), the date window at 6 o'clock, the AR-coated sapphire crystal and no "Majetek Vojenske Spravy" engraving on the back case.