Germany, Fliegertruppe. A Pilot’s Pocket Watch By F.w. Kreis Auction Archive It has a wide black

It has a wide black band around its circumference

Many escaped the ship but died of hypothermia or burns suffered when escaped fuel ignited on the water

as a training installation for the Royal Bavarian Army and had been a POW camp during the First World War

An Austrian Marian Cross of the German Knight Order

Germany, Fliegertruppe. A Pilot’s Pocket Watch By F.w. Kreis Auction Archive It has a wide black(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