Enoksen 'Fly' E03/S - Dirty Dozen - Automatic - 36mm

As a watch company with a documented passion for tool and service watches, we are pleased to announce a new timepiece that honours not just the original Dirty Dozen watches, but also the men and women who relied on the timekeeping they provided.

Our new Fly E03/S is a loyal interpretation of the original Dirty Dozen when it comes to size, functionality, and design. Back in the day the Dirty Dozen watches had a mechanical hand-wound movement as nothing else was available. For this watch we have also chosen a mechanical movement, but one with a self-winding capability so you don't have to wind it every 1-2 days.

Supplied with a classic canvass strap as well as our popular seatbelt NATO strap in khaki, the E03/S is a compelling watch with lots of history but modern reliability.

The watch that won WWII
If you are interested in historic watches you may have heard about the famous Dirty Dozen.

During WWII the British government realised the importance of providing the troops with a general-use watch. Up until then, servicemen had been reliant on whatever timepiece they already had. So in line with what their opposite numbers in Germany and America had already done, the British Ministry of Defence created a set of specifications that a new watch would have to meet in order to be suitable for active duty.

The UK didn't have watchmaking capability in abundance, and the relatively few watchmakers in operation during the war had shifted their focus to naval and aviation instruments, rather than wristwatches. So the British MoD had to look for Swiss watchmakers to meet the need for its new military spec watch, known as  the W.W.W., short for Wrist Watch Waterproof.

12 companies - 11 from Switzerland and one from the UK signed up for the programme and began to manufacture the W.W.W. These companies were Buren, Cyma, Eterna, Grana, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lemania, Longines, IWC, Omega, Record, Timor and Vertex.

Some of these brands are long gone today, others are still going strong.

All 12 manufacturers added individual touches to their watches, making each of the variations unique. A total of approximately 150,000 watches were manufactured across all 12 companies. CYMA, Omega, and Record all made over 20,000 watches while IWC, Eterna, and Jaeger-LeCoultre all made less than 10,000 pieces.