Ollech & Wajs...

Is back!!!

Courtesy of Ollech & Wajs

Anyone who got into watches back in the late 90s and just after the turn of the century would be familiar with Ollech & Wajs.  A watch that looked good and offered extraordinarily good value.  Started in the 1950s by Albert J. Wajs, and partnered by Joseph Ollech the company that began life as a bracelet manufacturer expanded to the production and sale of wrist watches.  Many American service members were early adopters and Ollech & Wajs was available for purchase at PXs (Base Exchanges).  

The brand has gone through a few different iterations, but currently is owned by "a passionate collector of the Ollech & Wajs brand".  Per Wikipedia and the Ollech & Wajs website, this "passionate collector" became the French distributor and took over the brand in 2017.  Which brings us to today.

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This is the OW P-104.  It is currently available for pre-order, direct from Ollech & Wajs.  The price is CHF 1,056.

Here are the pertinents -

REFERENCE
OW P-104

  

DIMENSIONS 

39.56 mm X 15 mm

CASE 

brushed 316L stainless steel, screwed back, screw-down crown, bezel with circular slide rule

GLASS 

curved sapphire with anti-glare treatment

DIAL 

hands and indexes in Super-LumiNova®

WATER RESISTANCE 

300M/ 30ATM

MOVEMENT 

automatic ETA 2824-2 OW3P, hours minutes seconds date

SWISSNESS 

over 90% of components of Swiss origin, assembly in Jura Switzerland

BRACELET 

NATO extra strong nylon and leather, origin Great Britain

PACKAGING 

leather origin Great Britain, and Kraft paper origin Italy

WARRANTY 

3 years against any manufacturing defect