Rare Collectible Antique LACO B-UHR WW2 Luftwaffe Pilot Aviator Giant Wristwatch

Description: Great, rare, investment watch! Collectable! I am offering a large, XXL, unique, antique, original, German, military, pilot / aviator, LACO B-UHR (Beobachtungs Uhr) wristwatch with a case diameter of 55 mm (total length including lugs 65 mm). Year of manufacture is approx. 1942. Original, high-quality and reliable, antique (more than 80 years old), gold-plated, LACO / DUROWE watch movement, caliber D5, extra-standard set with many stones (22 jewels), equipped with a central second hand and "stop second" function ". Observer's watch or beobachtungs uhr in German language, abbreviated B-UHR. Manufacturer Laco (Lacher & Co). Collector's item. The watch is in good, working condition, all parts are original. Serial number of the mechanism 16001 is displayed on the back of the case. Likewise the dial and hour hands with old luminescent paint. The watch works perfectly, the power reserve after winding is about 1.5 days. I will also give to the watch a new, genuine, leather watch strap, 26 mm wide, and a new, wooden, lacquered watch box. The price is very friendly, so don't hesitate to buy. These watches are almost impossible to find and collectors do not let them go. Shipping is free after prepayment. LACO COMPANY HISTORY:In the year of 1925 Frieda Lacher and Ludwig Hummel founded a watch manufactory in Pforzheim city - Germany under the name Lacher & Co. In the first few years, they complete watches with imported individual parts that were mainly imported from Switzerland which were reassembled and placed in their own and also bought-in cases. In the year 1932 the two company founders was separated. A little later, Frieda Lacher founded a new company (Frieda Lacher Präzisionsteile Fabrik) that specialized in the manufacture of precision watch parts. The LACO watch factory was continued by Ludwig Hummel and has continued to produce LACO watches. The development of Lacher & Co (LACO) into a company with global renown and Pforzheim's largest watch factory took place entirely under the direction of Ludwig Hummel. In the year 1933 he founded DUROWE (Deutsche Uhren Rohwerke). By producing his own watch movements, he gained independence from Swiss and other manufacturers. Not only LACO equipped their own models with DUROWE movements, numerous other manufacturers also used the reliable raw movements. In 1936 Erich Lacher, Frieda Lacher's son, joined her branch of the company and finally took over its management. For this reason, the company was renamed to the Erich Lacher watch factory. This again produced complete watches. During the Second World War, LACO supplied the famous pilot's watches to the air force and the also very well-known deck or observation watches (pocket watches with completely luminous dials) to the Navy. The pilot's and marine watches were both equipped with the extremely high-quality DUROWE D5 caliber, a central second bridge movement with 22 jewels. The company still exists today and produces a wide range of watches with different variations on this famous timepiece. HISTORY OF B-UHR WATCHES (use a translator to translate it from czech language to your language):www.chronomag.cz/clanek/2005-12-15/b-uhren-letecke-hodinky-luftwafe-i-dne.html LACO BRAND WEB PAGE:laco.de

Price: 6100 USD

Location: Budyně nad Ohří

End Time: 2025-01-16T16:20:04.000Z

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