Hamilton GI Rolex but for many

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are perennial favorites of collectors

and many of us here at Analog/Shift count a Carrera in our personal collections

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Hamilton GI Rolex but for manyWhy We Love It True military watches exude a kind of toughness that's hard to replicate. These watches with their black dials, easy to read indices, and luminescent hands pack a punch in a deceptively compact package. No watches exemplify this toughness more than the General Issue watches manufactured from the Vietnam War to the early 1980s. The Department of Defense first ordered General Issue (GI) watches in 1964, to outfit soldiers in the years