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November 20, 2009

A watch no amount of money can buy

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It's the limited edition Bremont MBI with a red anodized case (above and below).

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Why isn't your money good enough?

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Because this special model of the MBII is available only to those aviators who have been saved by a Martin-Baker ejection seat.

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Wrote Simon de Burton in a June 13, 2009 Financial Times story about the timepiece, "At the time of writing, the tally of ejectees, which is kept at Martin-Baker's UK headquarters in Buckinghamshire, stood at 7,280 since the first seat was put to use in November 1946, just four years after Sir James Martin penned the original designs for the MK1 following an airplane crash that killed Captain Valentine Baker, with whom he had founded the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company in 1934."

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For those who have no need for a watch since, having survived an in-flight disaster which required ejection, they're quite aware of being on borrowed time, there's also the Martin-Baker tie, which for a long time has been available to those fortunate souls who belong to the Ejection Tie Club.

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I first learned about the club from a mystery novel called The Bishop at Sea.

Posted by: Mary Sue | Nov 20, 2009 1:58:35 PM

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