Poljot Aviator 24 Hours #547/999

This is where my my obsession if you will started with 24 hours.. I was already used to 'military' or 'european' time.. writing down 8PM? Hell no, that's 20:00 (but I'll still call it 8..). At work we had a 24 hour wall clock which I really liked so I found some windows Gadgets that included a 24 hour clock which was really cool. After a while running that on my computer I thought : 'Why don't they have watches like that??" - Did some searching and WOW.. there's quite a few out there! Obsession Started :)

So I came across Raketa's / Poljot Aviators... what stood out to me was that a lot of them were the same.. yet 'slightly different'? Holy Crap,  Enter the hornet's nest of FAKES..

It turns out a LOT of these watches are being (re)made as fakes. I really wanted an original so I did a TON of reading on forums like WatchUSeek etc. I learned a ton in a short amount of time and had some tell-tale signs to look out for such as
* Minute & hour hands made of multiple pieces of lume
* No Date window
* Wrong Case Back
* Wrong / Generic Movement

So after digging and finally finding a trustworthy vendor I was able to purchase one! The straps were a bit short, and the watch is on the smaller side for my wrist being 40mm, but it still looks good. Definitely will need to get a good NATO strap to go with it.

Some specs from here:
https://www.poljot24.de/en/24-stundenuhren-poljot/aviator-24-hour-watch.html


Diameter 40 mm - height 12 mm
 
This  rare  Aviator 24-hour watch  has a high quality brushed stainless steel case l with 40 mm diameter, 20 mm bandwidth, a slightly curved , hardened  mineral glass and a screwed  and decorated watchback.

The black dial with aviator symbol  shows very well readable , green luminous numbers  and luminous hands (Superluminova) and an orange seconds hand.

Poljot manual winding caliber with 17 jewels, 21,600 vibrations per hour, shock protection, 40-hour power reserve and 24-Hour mode.  3 ATM.

Comes with black leather strap and watchbox. Limited to 999 pieces

Here's someone with the same watch (not my video):