Germany, Fliegertruppe. A Pilot’s Pocket Watch By F.w. Kreis certificate_of_authenticity Badge in patinated silver and

Badge in patinated silver and enamels

HE WAS A SOLDIER

telling story of a vanguard unit

obverse centre presenting a Lilies Cross overlaid with a Latin Cross

Naming is impressed in small capitals

Germany, Fliegertruppe. A Pilot’s Pocket Watch By F.w. Kreis certificate_of_authenticity Badge in patinated silver and(Taschenuhr). A steel cased, magnetic, non functional pocket watch with an inverted face allowing the pilot to read the time without having to turn the watch the opposite way, the white enamelled face has bold numerals in black, marked EIGENTUM DER FLIEGERTRUPPEN (PROPERTY OF THE FLYING CORPS), with steel blue hour and minute hands, each minute position marked with black rules, a steel blue secondhand partially obscures the 12 oclock position, maker