Selza WW2 Pattern German Navy (Kriegsmarine) 17 Jewel

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 wrist watches at the time were usually very small and hard to read with an average diameter of just 32mmhence 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 light colored dials in either cream or white as opposed to black which was used for other branches of the German forces.

This watch is closely based on one of Selza's WW2 designs, although the original watches are now quite rare and tend to fetch high prices this watch is outwardly almost indistinguishable from the factories WW2 models but has been upgraded to a more scratch resistant glass crystal as opposed to the plastic acrylic crystals which were used on the original watches, the watch retains a traditional 17 jewel hand winding mechanical movement. 

This particular pocket watch has a solid 316L military grade stainless steel case with second hand subdial.