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Old 29 January 2018, 02:33 AM   #1
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Forget Diamonds - Why you want a month's salary on your wrist

I came across this interesting blog and thought I share. I apologize if it's been posted already since I haven't been active on here much (except in the AD forum ).


https://soflete.com/blogs/knowledge/...-on-your-wrist


Excerption from the blog:

"In the early 1960’s a trend started to reveal itself amongst discerning Special Forces soldiers. On trips to Southeast Asia, SF guys began to acquire Rolex watches at the PX’s and at jewelers across the Pacific Rim. At the time, there was simply no better way to quickly spend your hard-earned combat pay.

This trend became a tradition, and for good reason. Fifty-five years later a huge number of our Special Operations Forces brothers are wearing a variety of high dollar automatic watches in operational environments.

 The question is this: Why would our country’s best unconventional warriors be defaulting to mechanical, automatic movement powered time pieces, and passing over their modern, battery powered counterparts?

Modern timepieces are technological marvels. It’s easy to find a “watch” with all the bells and whistles of a GPS device, that also monitors your heart rate, tracks your sleep and movement patterns, and quietly uploads the aforementioned metrics to the cloud."

You can read more on the link above.
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