Sweden remained neutral throughout the second world war, allowing Germany to use its railways to travel between Norway and Finland, while at the same time informing Allied forces of German troop movements and as the war came to a close Allied aircraft would use Swedish Air Force bases. Because of fears of an invasion of Sweden by Russia, some 8000 Swedish volunteers also fought alongside Finish Soldiers ...
This watch is based one that was issued to all graduates of the Orenburg pilots school. The First Moscow Watch Factory "Sturmanskie" (navigator). Manufacture of this early Centre Seconds watch was made possible after the purchase of automated equipment from the French watchmaker, LIP. Famously this watch was worn by the first man in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. ...
In the early 1940s the British Ministry of Defence drew up new specifications for a replacement for the British Army Trade Pattern watch (ATP), the new watch would be called the Waterproof Wrist Watch or WWW. 12 Swiss manufacturers supplied these watches including Longines, Omega, IWC and Jeager Le ...
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