simple air-king question

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Originally Posted by ayres

thanks...

to make matters more complicated, ebay sellers often do not include the 'm' when listing the reference - if they even bother to list the reference. so in using ebay as a quasi-research site, it is unclear how the air-king has changed over the years.

moreover, almost no websites bother to discuss the air-king other than its history with pilots.

The Air-King name is where the history is.. It was registered in 1943, a couple of years before the Datejust, and a full decade before the Sub or GMT. The name was used on several different size and type of watches that also had other names too - along with Speed King and others..

The other names were eventually dropped and Air King is the survivor. Air Kings almost always went along with the Sub, Explorer, and Oyster Perpetual for it's movement and simply offered a different case option.......