Eastman Leather A-2 - Reissue 'Escape A-2'

[Heisenberg]

Bulky watches can have an impact on knits. I am REALLY cautious getting knits over my watch.

I put on my watch after putting on the jacket ... always

 

[Heisenberg]

But ... it's true that I don't have small watches

 

[Pilot]

Never had any issues with my GW, BR and RMCC‘s A-2‘s ( L-2A, B-10, B-15C ) nor with all original jackets with original knits...and wearing big military diving watches and chronos all the time...
With the ELC RW 1401-P ... after a few days...
Real crapola knits.

 

[Flightengineer]

ELC knits only became crapola during the last few years... they were fine in earlier days.

So I'm doubly lucky, because I'm weared a lot my ELC Star for last 2 years, but the cuffs are like new. And yes, I have a big watch (52 mm).

 

[Heisenberg]

So I'm doubly lucky, because I'm weared a lot my ELC Star for last 2 years, but the cuffs are like new. And yes, I have a big watch (52 mm).

52 and 56 mm for me ... and one month for the Eastman knits ,and i am very careful

 

[Pilot]

My little travel set...
No issues at all with knits...except...as already mentioned.

 

[Heisenberg]

I am more reasonable than you my friend

 

[mulceber]

So I'm doubly lucky, because I'm weared a lot my ELC Star for last 2 years, but the cuffs are like new. And yes, I have a big watch (52 mm).

I’m starting to think the quality of ELC knits is highly variable: my ELC RW 1401P that I bought used and pretty well worn (2-3 years old) has knits that are holding up just fine.

 

[Heisenberg]

I think so too

 

[Pilot]

I am more reasonable than you my friend View attachment 31194

Love Oris...Will go for an Aquis Deep Gauge.

 

[Heisenberg]

Love Oris...Will go for an Aquis Deep Gauge.

Oris Carlos Coste for Brice " the Action Man " ...

 

[mulceber]

I think so too

That said, “highly variable” is still crappy, and regardless of how long they hold up, they still aren’t the right shape.

 

[Pilot]

My Ex ELC RW had perfect knits... A totally different generation. An A-2 repro much more WW2 like by all details.... mentioned 1000times already...

 

[Smithy]

My Ex ELC RW had perfect knits... A totally different generation. An A-2 repro much more WW2 like by all details.... mentioned 1000times already...View attachment 31196

Nice looking A-2 that Brice from what we can see.

I do wonder whether the latest ELCs are starting to become caricatures of A-2s, that is this sort of idea of what an A-2 should be rather than what it actually was. The biggest humdinger for me is the leather, lots of their new hides, whilst lovely and characterful (that's an understatement) actually when new look more like what you'd find on an antique armchair in the back of an antique shop. It almost seems like the older ones it could be argued were more like "1942 in a box" than the overly done recent ones which it seems aim to look too old right off the bat.

 

[Flightengineer]

My ELC from 2014. Perhaps newer ones have worse knitting quality.

 

[ausreenactor]

Sitting watching 'The Great Escape' on free to air, sitting in my ELC Monarch.. CAPT Hilts' A-2 is a motley thing. The ELC finish is not that far removed from the movie jacket. Identical to CAPT Hilts' baseball glove!

 

[gav]

No problems with the knits on my ELC RW after a couple of years.
this thread is pretty hilarious

 

[Micawber]

Sitting in my chair dressed just in swimming trunks, mask, snorkel and flippers watching the 100th rerun of the Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau.

...poops wrong forum....

 

[Pilot]

 

[Heisenberg]