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This is an IDF Autavia, with the usual style of engraving on the back case:
Here's another IDF Autavia, also with the usual IDF engraving on the back case. Both watches are from a surplus military supplies seller in Israel (general ex-mil surplus, not particularly watches):
These are the three Kenya Air Force "Shauntavias" I own, they all have a KAF inscription on the back case:
The last one is not an actual military issued watch, but it is a model worn by Jefferey Feinstein, the last "ace" of the Vietnam war. There is an classic photo of him, easily found on Google, wearing an early 1163 GMT, about to board an F-4 Phantom:
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