Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Hanhart. A military chromium-plated steel single button chronograph pilot’s watch, circa 1940.
Movement: cal. 40, manual winding, 17 jewels.
Dial: black, Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 30-minute register.
Case: chromium-plated steel, screw-down back, no. 108299.
Signed: dial.
Dimensions: diameter 39.5mm.
Accessories: Hanhart watch case opener, bearing German military insignia of an eagle over a swastika within a wreath and the letter M, no. 428B.
£1,500-£2,000

Provenance: From the late Bob Culling collection

Hanhart produced these single button chronographs for the Wehrmacht (Nazi Germany Arms Forces). They were mainly used by the Luftwaffe.
Z. M. Wesolowski, Military Timepieces 1880-1990, p.147.