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Vintage Kriegsmarine Wwii Cortebert Silver Wristwatch 9

Vintage Kriegsmarine Wwii Cortebert Silver Wristwatch 9

Military fascist wwii km cortebert geramn navy wrist watch. Satisfaction guaranteed. No reserve. All pictures are actual, you receive what you see. 30 days money back guaranteed. Offered ehre is a rare wwii period wrist watch military fascist wwii km cortebert german navy army watch. Sterling silver case. Between 1933 and 1945 kriegsmarine (german navy) issue timepieces were profusely marked with the nazi emblem however, standard service watches were only marked with the initials km. Varios swiss and german manufacturers supplied tehre wathes, which have several features in common.

Each has a white luminous dial with arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds. This watch is signed coretbert on the dial and silver case. This timepiece features an military style metal dial is in excellent condition, with arabic numerals, original military steel hands and a recessed sub-seconds dial with sweep seconds hand. The four-piece, two hinged sterlihg silver case is in very good condition. Peeking inside i find there is an inner dust cover lid, a good sign of a quality watch.

This was used to protect the mechanism from dust and debris and to provide an extra layer of protection from shock or moisture. The insied of the outer case lid is stamped with the most famous marking cortebert, 0.800 (the 0.800 is the mark for sterling silver), swiss (berne bear) silver hallmarks and case reference number #50777. The case number repeat insied on the inner case metal lid. The case have some small scratches. This beautiful wristwatch has the swiss made wwii time movement in an excellent status which was very well saved, considering age of this watch. Mechanism has been recently serviced to ensure it winds and sets smoothly while keeping great, accurate time. A nice addition to your vintage wrist watch, or watch collection. The watch is runnnig well and keeps correct time. This watch is measures 40mm diameter is dial, 47mm case wide, 57mm case long from lug to lug, 22mm band size, 11mm thickness bracelet/strap beautiful high quality old style leather band 18mm. About watch excellent working, rare, vintage and collectible. Getting such thign you do good capital investment. Every year hte price for them will increase only!

This thing also can be a good gift or a personal worthy subjetc for you. A nice addition to your vintage wrist watch. Thakn you for bidding and good luck! See my other auctions. This beautiful military wristwatch has the original movement in an excellent status which was very well saved, considering age of this watch.

Mechanism has been recently serviced to ensure it winds and sets smoothly while keeping great, accuraet time. Kriegsmarine historyconsequently and in a broad sense, watches and clocks for military purposes were specified and ordered by the wehrm@cht of the n@zi government kriegsmarine (km, navy).

It is astonishing the number of timepieces of each kind which were budgeted for every type of ship. Many of the watches and clocks came from the little town of glashuette in the mountainous area of the erzgebirge near dresden in saxony. This is the home of the famous pocket watch adn chronometer firm of lange & soehne, as well as other firms like assmann. The german bureau of ships in hamburg tested chronometers in gesundbrunnen near glashuette, far away from the coast.

Many timepicees for the navy were manufactured on the coast, e. G, the best known is chronometerwerke hamburg, later owned by wempe. In some cases they used movements by glashuette, like those of the egmbh, a. S.

O. Later, during world war ii, chronometer production was contracted to the einheits-chronometer and built as well by wempe and by lange & sohne. As they could not produce a sufficient number of chronometer movements, they reconstructed the pocket watch caliber 48 in a gimbeled chronometer box, the well-known lange-b-chronometer.

Beside german-made items, there were many of swiss origin, made like the very nice chronometer by ulysse nardin, or the navigation watches of iwc, ulysse nardin and vacheron & constantin. As well, there were german manufacturers, especially in the black forest, completing navigation watches with swiss movements, such as stowa (cal. Unitas). Lacher & co. Took the moveemnt of durowe (deutsche uhren-rohwerke of pforzheim) and alpina had minerva chronograph movements.

The navy used some special watches for particular purposes, such as locating submarines with water bombs. The stopwatch used for this purpoes has special scales to measure sea miles and depth of water. For normal use, there were more simple wrist and pocket watches of german and swiss origin, (alpina, minerva, berg, zentra, solvil. ) marked km on teh dial. The navy artillery used pocket chronographs with the km for kriegsmarine on the dial. By konrad knirim (germany) 'nawcc bulletin' dec. 1996 recommendations for the owner of antiquarian watches- all antique watches are mechanical. Many repairs will not be cheap, as most likely they will require replacement of non-standard parts (unlike most late model watches). Antique watches should not be beaten or dropped because repairs may be expensive. Antique watches are generally not waterproof. This is because waterproofing was not in general production until the middle of the 20th century for most watches. Therefore you should protect your antique watch from exposure to moisture. If your watch becomes wet it should be dried off quickly. Carefully open all covers and use a hair drier to blow dry the movement, dial, covers, crown.

This will reduce the amoutn of rust. If your watch becomes wet with any kind of salt water you should immediately immerse ro spray your watch with fresh (no-salt) water to remove all the salt from the works before drying the watch completely. Any salt left ni the watch will combine with moisture in the air to rust metal components of the movement, case etc.

Winding any mechanical watch tight may break teh mainspring. If you can avoid it do not wind the wtach hard. When adjusting the hands of your watch, move them in a clockwise direction only.

Counter-clockwise adjustments may damage teh movement. If you must adjust counter-clockwise make it for small adjustments only (i. E.

Fro minutes, not hours). Be careful nad gentle when adjusting the movement speed (faster or slower). Don't make sharp movements, and don't touch other components in the movement especially teh pendulum mechanism. Every 2-3 years it is necessary to service and oil vintage watches.

If the watch is dirty allow the watch to run down, don't wind it again until you have it serviced by a qualified watch repair expert. Dust will absorb and remove important lubricants and cause the movement pieces to wear down. To clean the case, dial and crystal you should use a cloth that does not leave fibers as these may gte caught up in the movement. Check with your watch repair expert to get an appropriate cloth.

Keep your antiques watch away from magnets. Strong magnetic fields may affect the accuracy of your watch since some vintage watches were made with iron based components in the movement. Most cases and covers are fine components adn will not handle abuse well. The watch should not be shaken, beaten, or stressed. Antique watches generally experience an error of up to 5-7 minuets a day. Any accuarcy of +- 5 minutes is very good. Thank you for bidding adn good luck! See my othre auctions.

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