Dambuster painting by Mark Postlethwaite - Time lapse - Zero West Watches 

As part of our Dambuster Lancaster watch launch earlier this year Zero West commissioned an original oil painting by the world-renowned aviation artist Mark Postlethwaite. Our intention was to donate the painting to a worthy cause, and none is so fitting as getting Lancaster NX611 Just Jane airworthy again. The magnificent painting measuring 42″ x 30″ depicts the subject of our Dambuster watches, Lancaster ED825 AJ-T, flown by Big Jo McCarthy in the early hours of 17thMay 1943, on its return from the Sorpe Dam where bomb aimer Johnny Johnson recalls flying past the breached Mohne Dam. It must have been a sight to behold, and Mark has captured every detail of it in his spectacular work of art.