Casio MDV -106B-2AV & Casio MTP-1244D-7AJF modded together

A Surface Warfare Officer, currently a Class Officer and instructor at Navy Officer Candidate School, underway aboard USS Constitution in Boston Harbor. He was aboard for a Purple Heart ceremony while the ship cruised the harbor. The watch is one of the first he ever built and modded himself, a Casio MDV-106B-2AV and a Casio MTP-1244D-7AJF brought together into one piece. His logic for wearing it there is hard to argue with. The Duro is timeless, he says, just as the Constitution is one of the first ships the United States ever built, and is as timeless as the Duro, if not more so. What was the first watch you built yourself? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

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Casio Duro MDV-106 The Duro is the watch industry's great inside joke, a genuine 200 meter diver with a screw-lock crown, a 120-click unidirectional bezel, and honest lume, sold for about fifty dollars when it launched in 2011. It sold over 600,000 units in its first decade because it delivers the entire dive watch formula with nothing left out except the price. The quartz movement runs about three years on a battery and asks for nothing else. That affordability made the MDV-106 one of the great platforms of the watch modding world. When the case costs fifty dollars, you can open it, swap a dial from another Casio, and build something that exists nowhere in any catalog, which is exactly what happened here with an MTP-1244D dial in the mix. He wore it aboard USS Constitution, launched in 1797 and still the oldest commissioned warship afloat. Built by hand, still serving. Both of them.

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