Selza WW2 Pattern German Navy (Kriegsmarine) 17 Jewel Hand Wound Military Pocket Watch
SKU: SELZ/PWKM Military pocket watches along with their civilian equivalents are seeing a huge increase in popularity. Historically they were often employed for both land-based and naval applications. During WW2 they were frequently used by both the German Forces (Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe) as well as British and American forces, the primary reason that pocket watches were so popular was that wristwatches at the time were usually very small and hard to read with an average diameter of just 32mm hence the pocket watches large size of close to 50mm meant that the time could be seen much more easily. This classic WW2 pattern Selza* military watch with a small subsidiary dial second hand is based on the typical designs used by the German Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II, one feature which was common to all of the watches made for this branch of the German forces is that they tended to have the initials K.M on the dial which is short for Kriegsmarine and also had