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The issued ones are super cool.
https://www.vintagewatchadvisors.com/2019/03/17/seiko-raf-gen-1/
The issued ones are super cool.
https://www.vintagewatchadvisors.com/2019/03/17/seiko-raf-gen-1/
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Speaking of Seiko 7A28's, a friend's ex-group captain father has a 7A28-7120 from his RAF days that I'm dying to take a photo of sometime. Oddly though he didn't keep the one from his active service but wrestled one new from the QM stores, with much difficulty I was crisply informed, nearer his retirement.
Had a very entertaining timepiece conversation with him a year or two ago. They were all issued Omegas while operating Typhoons out of Germany in the early 70s and at one point he went through three watches in as many months thanks to a sudden obsession with ice skating that took over half the officers' mess. Or there was the time he was forced to fly a Lightning back from a recce to Cairo without its all-important cockpit clock that had been inadvertently left with the ground crew. I got the impression that if he'd lost visual with the other aircraft he would have been very properly stuffed. Anyway it turned up at his home base several months later in a battered brown paper parcel covered in stamps and Arabic writing.