Stirling Durrant (Unit watch)
A patrol officer and a group of his fellow cops designed their own unit watch, then made it real. The dial carries their department star, and the caseback is engraved with the words service, pride, dedication. A unit watch is a quiet kind of monument, something a group of people who do hard work together can wear and recognize on one another. That is about as tool watch as it gets. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Stirling Durrant, Unit Edition
This is a Stirling Durrant built as a custom unit watch, a dive style automatic on the widely trusted Seiko NH35 movement, in an all stainless case rated to 200 meters. What makes it theirs is the personalization, the department star printed on the dial at six o'clock and the caseback engraved with service, pride, dedication around the unit's emblem. Unit watches like this are usually organized by the members themselves, a small run made for the people who were actually there.
The Unit Watch Tradition
Unit watches have a long history in the military and have carried over into law enforcement, a shared timepiece marked with the insignia of a team, a tour, or a department. They are rarely about the watch as a collectible and almost always about belonging, a physical token that says you were part of this group and did this work. The submitter and a number of his fellow officers created this one for their patrol unit, which is the whole tradition in a single sentence.