In WWII the US Navy put "life barter kit" in navy planes for those served duty during campaigns in the Pacific. The kit was to used as an offer a few valuables pilots could trade or sell if their plane shot down when they needed help, food, information, or transportation.
The life barter kit was different with a survival kit, There it contained two gold rings, a gold pendant and chain, as well as a Swiss Milus Snow Star – Surprisingly Milus didn't know about that until a few years ago. US Navy decided a Milus watch was good enough to be exchanged for a human's life was darn excellent news.
The Milus Snow Star watch and the life barter kit were made in 2011 as a retro version.
One in 18k Red gold which we are talking about it here and the other in steel. Each watch comes with a little kit of a pair of cufflinks, and a nylon NATO strap.
The watch is 40mm wide, a sapphire crystal and a water resistance of 30 meters.
The gold one has the more interesting movement being a NOS (new old stock) Swiss ETA 2408 manually wound movement with a power reserve of 36 hours.
Milus sourced the older movements and totally restored them for use in these watches. The couldn't get that many so only the red gold models which are limited to 99 pieces. Both models indicator "instant date," which means the date changes instantly at midnight.
My personal Comment, this is a real classic like Hamilton Intramatic, I am checking how many still we can buy in the HK Market. I like the Gold one. Are you interested In?
I used to have a few Milus watch when I was young, my mother used to wear a miniature Milus watch manual Winding. It was about HKD$200 I the 70’s it is not cheap at all at that time. She worn it until one day someone bought her a Rolex Orchid.
Milus makes me thinking my time in the 70’s and It is a classic., and I like Solid gold watch
PS
It is Funny to see the tiny knight had a Logo of Milus as his head, let me search for what reason this character was created?! If I am not wrong, I have seen it before.
HK Snob
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