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A field watch updated for the 21st century? Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm looking at this. This is the Bertucci Field Watch. This is the
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A2T NATO Model 12075. And what they did is really cool. They took the basic design of World War II
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two and Vietnam era military issue watches and they updated all of the components and internals for a
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modern watch. So the design itself is a classic field watch. Now, field watches were designed
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for the military so that they could see what time it was super fast in pretty much any crummy weather
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or anything. So that was their only purpose in life. And here's what's interesting is that the
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original field watches from the like 1940s and 50s and 60s were pretty much
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small they were just little tiny watches so this is actually bigger than a
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standard military issue field watch this is a 40 millimeter dial and the
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originals were somewhere between 30 and 36 millimeters so you know if you're
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looking at this and you're thinking oh the modern style is to have a massive face that is not a field watch if you get that then they're just having some fun with
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the design but it's not more traditional and again this is not
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traditional per se but it does have a lot of elements of a classic
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field watch Now the case itself is solid titanium and like I said it a 40 dial with a hardened sapphire crystal and the internal is a Swiss all quartz movement with luminous hands and markers
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Now, in the dark, it only lasts a certain amount of time, as with the luminosity on any of these sort of watches
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But here's the thing. The battery, you put a battery in this, it lasts five years
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A long time to have your watch where you don't have to worry about winding it. You certainly don't have to do that Apple Watch thing of putting it on a little charging stand every night
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Five years, this thing's going to go great. And here's what also is really nice is it's water resistant to 100 meters, which is over 300 feet
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Now, it's not a dive watch. It doesn't give you like timers so you make sure you don't run out of oxygen or anything
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So if you're really diving, use a dive watch. But if you want to just be able to swim or snorkel or just go and have fun in water, this is actually a nice
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watch but here's what I really like about it this is a really cool band this is what
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they call the B-type Zulu or NATO band and it's a nylon band and again the
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original military issue watches had cotton bands so upgrading to nylon is good but as
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you can see it has a lot of these different sort of rings and it's just the way
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that it all fits through and the way the nylon has been finished is really
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cool so really nice comfortable watch and also one thing I like is that this is solid titanium These bars aren going to break because the watch strap actually goes all the way across the back of the watch I like that design
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I think that's really cool. So it fits really nicely. It's very comfortable. It is obviously highly
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durable and tough. And with its solid titanium case, this is not going to be anything you're going
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to have to worry about dinging up or anything. And, you know, there's lots of color options. There are
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ton of different colors for the bands if you want to try actually a different setup
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than this this is just sort of a classic military olive and gray and everything so
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this is definitely my preference and if we look closely at the face you can see it is
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again a classic field watch with a 24 hour indicator so if someone says to you we're
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gonna meet at 1900 hours you don't have to sit there and do the math you can do actually
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just look on the inner dial and try to figure out where 19 is which you see is by the
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seven so nice simple design there's no timers there's no alarms there's no notifications of email it is just a watch
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and that's very nice now only thing left to talk about is the price but before we get there if i can ask
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go ahead and subscribe to my channel really appreciate when you do that and give me some feedback do you have a field
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watch you have one from maybe your dad or grandpa from when they were in the military service or mom or grandma or something but more
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generally it going to be a guy And what do those look like So you know this is as I said you go and look online and check out the history of field watches This is a pretty classic design Bertucci
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done a very nice job with this, which leads us to the price. So this is the Bertucci A2T NATO
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model 12075 and it will cost you $219. You can check it out at Amazon.com. I have become a real fan of this
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watch and I got to say I really like the field watch design because I have so many watches that are
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so complicated. Indeed, all the little tiny things are called complications, right? Well, it makes it
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more complicated to see what time it is. So having something this simple is a watch that everyone
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can appreciate and that you'll always know exactly what time it is. I got to say it's a win for me
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I'm going to put it back on my wrist, which means that as soon as I get this done, are you still with me
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still watching so see put it on put it through these loops such a cool system look
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at that so once I have it on that means we're done which means I'll catch you in my
