Although the principal of PVD was invented in 1852 the refinements in the process didn’t happen until the 1960s and 70s. The watch was produced with a black coating. The case was definitely Doxa but the bezel was actually a 60 click countdown bezel with an acrylic insert. I added the watch more as an afterthought rather than a conscious decision to include it because it was a significant piece of Doxa’s history. In the 10 years I had owned and been writing about Doxa SUBs, I had never seen one. I have a couple of pictures of one in the 40th Doxa book but they were added at the last minute because the watch literally appeared out of nowhere. The Doxa Army is a watch that very people knew much about and even less people had ever owned one or even seen one in real life. I don’t own a Doxa Army so I would like to thank Red Godin and Mike Moritz for the use of their photos in this review. The best way to illustrate this is take a look at the watches, beginning with the Army. That’s a reasonably fair comment if you just look at images of both watches but it is actually further from the truth than you might think. With it's release, many people leveled criticism at the Military that it was a copy of the Doxa Army. What? Come again? Most people who have come here to read this review will have heard of and possibly even own the new Synchron Military watch. So when is a Doxa not a Doxa? When it is a Synchron.
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