Military Watches and Mil Specs

I've always really liked military watches because they emphasis function ahead of form.  Pure function. Military watches are based on military specifications.  Here's a great site that discusses mil spec watches

I'm particularly fond of the MOD 66-4 standard which the Omega Seamaster is designed after:

This is the original design as set forth by the Ministry of Defence from the 1960's.  This is an elegant watch design. I like the simplicity.  Of course, watch makers have taken this original design and abstract it to something unrecognizable over time.  See Def Stan 66-46/1

Today's MOD watchface from 1991, by contrast is less attractive.  Really quite uninspiring.

Again, form over function.