![]() ![]() M47-331 – “M47” for the model, and “331” for the serial number of Arnold’s actual tank. ![]() We were informed that the timepiece features nearly 11 ounces of steel, a burly leather strap, and a precise Japanese movement. In 2010, the idea became a reality with a watch powered by a “Japanese battery operated watch movement” (meaning that the watch could come from any number of Japanese manufacturers). and to Arnold.īack in the driver’s seat, this time on US soil, he felt inspired as he looked at the control panel and figured it would be a good idea to use those gauges as a model for a watch with all the heft and attitude of his military toy. The M47 was then extensively repaired and restored and taken back to the U.S. As it turns out, he was able to find it buried up to the turret on the Austrian-Hungarian border. Not a replica, or a similar M47 tank, but the exact same tank he drove back then. He completed his two years of mandatory military service back in 1966.įast forward about 25 years to 1992 when Arnold, at the height of his fame, decided to conduct a search for his old beloved tank. I’ll bet you didn’t know that, back in the mid sixties, Schwarzenegger served two years of compulsory service in the Austrian military behind the controls of a US-made M47 tank. Arnold Schwarzenegger, M47 tank – and a New WatchĪ watch to commemorate Arnold Schwarzenegger’s second term in office as the 38th Governor of California, you say? Yes! Of course! But its origins, just like Schwarzenegger’s, go beyond U.S. ![]()
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