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We have featured a lot of military watches here on Hodinkee, with the majority of them coming from World War II and the various conflicts of the 1950s and 60. It is rare to find a military piece closely associated with a skirmish of the 1980s (we'll call it a skirmish, others would call it a conflict, still others, a ghost-war). We are talking about the Contra War, which was launched in Nicaragua via a $20million loan from former IWC Aquatimer IWA1320 watches Hollywood star Ronald Reagan. We aren't going to give you too much of a history lesson, Wikipedia can take care of that. But we will give you the basics. After the fall of dictator Anastasio Debayle in 1979 at the hands of the Sandinistas (yes the inspiration for the epic Clash album), the US Government realized they had a problem on their hands. The Sandinistas had the help of the USSR and Cuba, in fact the Soviets had given them over $1billion in aid. To stop the growth of their Socialist agenda, the US backed the Contras (essentially composed of anyone against the Sandinistas) at times very underhandedly. After all, IWC Aquatimer IWA1320 watches Congress had prohibited the funding of the Contras in 1983 (but Reagan found a way around that). It has been suggested that the Contras were funded also by sales and even that they were responsible for the development of Crack in Southern California, but again, you can read about that elsewhere. What we have found for you today is a watch called the Seiko Fieldmaster. It is commonly referred to as the Contra watch, because this was the watch worn by Contras in the early 1980s.

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2010年10月10日星期日

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