Tag Heuer Formula 1 Solorgraph, Arabic Seiko, Luminox, Casio

Tag Heuer Formula 1 Solargraph, Arabic Seiko, Luminox, Casio Tag Heuer Formula 1, Arabic Seiko, Luminox and Casio TAG Heuer launched the Formula 1 in 1986, the first collection released after TAG bought Heuer, and it was deliberately loud and deliberately affordable: a steel core wrapped in colored fiberglass. The Solargraph runs caliber TH50-00, a quartz movement fed by light instead of a battery you replace, with a full charge good for up to roughly ten months. Seiko has built dials with Eastern Arabic numerals for the Middle East market for decades, mostly sold inside that region, which is why collectors elsewhere go hunting for them. Luminox was founded in 1989 by Barry Cohen and Richard Timbo, the name assembled from lumi and nox. The entire brand rests on one idea: sealed micro tubes of tritium gas on the dial and hands that glow on their own, continuously, for up to 25 years, with nothing to charge and no button to press. The Navy SEAL watch that made the brand's name followed in 1994. Casio built its watch reputation on digital movements that were cheap, accurate and very hard to kill. The G-Shock line came out of that in 1983, from Kikuo Ibe's Project Team Tough and something close to 200 failed prototypes, built to a standard the team called Triple 10: survive a ten meter drop, hold to ten atmospheres, run ten years on one battery. 25th Infantry Division, mortarman The 25th was formed on 1 October 1941 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, split out of the old Hawaiian Division, and it was on Oahu when the attack came on 7 December that same year. It earned the Tropic Lightning name for the speed of its work in the Solomons, and it has since served in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. A mortarman crews the infantry's own indirect fire, the tubes that belong to the battalion rather than to the artillery, which puts the section inside the infantry formation rather than behind it with the guns.