Smiths Military Models
From Chronopedia
Smiths Military Models
RAF Models
There are four “RAF” Smiths watches.
- Mk X - during WW2 (which led to the development of the 1215 in the late 1940s)
- GS De Luxe - of the mid 1950s (which led to the development of the CS27 17 jewel centre seconds movement)
- 6B- version of the more common W10 (which led to the development of the cal. 60466E and variants — 6046xE — used in many Astral watches from the mid 1960s.)
- Mk XI Navigator- seems to be similar to the cal 0104 (as used in the Imperial and Everest watches from the late 1950s onwards and which formed the base ebauche for the 25 jewel automatic).
In terms of numbers there are 11 known Mk X (9 sub seconds, 2 centre seconds) and 47 known examples of the GS De Luxe (most RAF “6B", some Australian Airforce “RAAF” and some outliers including AWRE etc); there were about 2,000 6B versions of the W10 made. Between three and seven of the Mk XI “Navigators” are estimated to have been made.
