OLD VINTAGE SILVER TRENCH WATCH HUNTER GRATE WRIST WATCH WITH A CIRCA 1918s

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OLD VINTAGE SILVER TRENCH WATCH HUNTER GRATE WRIST WATCH WITH A CIRCA 1918s
This is a beauti of a watch One of the first watches with the grate that flicks up and down like a hunter wrist watch made for the first world war.World War I (1914-18) made a necessary, useful implement of the wristwatch. A robust case, protective glass and strongly luminous numbers characterize the soldiers’ watches of these years.
The wristwatch gained worldwide use in World War I (1914-1918). Soldiers on both sides quickly realized that the conditions of modern warfare no longer allowed one to unbotton overcoat and uniform jacket whenever it was necessary to look at one’s watch. In the very first months of the war it was reported that “not only officers, but troops in general customarily wore their watch on their left wrist”. The number of new watchbands coming onto the market increased from day to day, according to German journal. There could not have been better conditions for spreading the use of the wristwatch than this war, as was stated in an anniversary publication of the Swiss watch industry. If the Swiss had feared export deficits at the beginning of the war, they soon found the situation had changed as the belligerent powers recognized the value of the wristwatch that met the soldiers’ needs so well. Especially popular at that time was the round caliber 13 watch, that often was fitted with a luminous dial. But the first significant success of the wristwatch was not gained among men, but among women, first as an ornament whereby until 1900 the dial. As with its predecessors around 1800, was set to that its 6-12 axis ran at a right angle to the band. Thereafter women’s wristwatches developed more and more as combinations of utility and decoration.The watch is in working order. Highly collectable and hard to find This watch is for sale,Ready to wear,The watch has been cleaned and service and it is in mint condition be quick before it goes
Ref: MIL37 £775.०० sorry this watch has been sold

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