Thank you both for your replies.
Im pretty sure the brit I bought this from story that it came from U776 (type VII-C) is more likely to be accurate than this being from U1225. Reason being the former surrendered itself close to where this guy is from, plus the latter uboat was lost at sea. Not likely the stopwatch would have survived in that case.
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u776.htm
Ive tried Uboat.net and Uboatwaffe.net and so far its stumpted all the stars thus far. Who knows what we may find though. My guess is the Nr. 1225 is just an issue number to keep track where it went and to whom - which would be a great verification trail to track down.
If you noticed in the pics I posted, the Kriegsmarine eagle and swatika are whited out under the Junghans logo for sensitivity reasons.
Sounds like Kalach's watch is early war, and mine is late war make;
when prettiness gave way to practical and cost consciousness.
The 30 minutes could be there for alot of reasons that I could think of:
- timing of passing ships
- depth and diving measurements
- torpedo measurements... multiple shots might be spread over 10s of minutes.
- sextant navigational measurements as aforementioned
- crew task performance measurements
- other surface ship (kriegsmarine) uses, other than just for uboats
- just because the manufacturer made it that way?
- other stuff that ive never thought of, which is why I asked
Id like to see pictures of yours if you dont mind.