u-jagd chrono

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by Friscobay

Damn...

That's GOOD................

And it does not have the ''English/American'' feel of the vanilla stopwatch version of SHIII.

The stopwatch modeled in stock SH3 is a replica of the face of a chrono manufactured in the early 1940s by Junghans Uhren GmbH. Junghans was founded in 1861 and is the largest manufacturer of watches and clocks in Germany. The watch face has the Junghans name and a National Socialist eagle insignia (minus the s-word.)

BTW, the term U-jagd refers to a submarine hunter, that is, a destroyer. Several sites on the web describe the use of that specific watch by escorts to time approaches and depth charge attacks, which is apparently what it was designed for. Here are a couple:

http://mb.nawcc.org/archive/index.php/t-31389.html

http://www.knirim.de/a0501mod.htm

There is at least one documented example of an U-jagd watch recovered from a captured German submarine, so their presence on U-boats is historically plausible. But they were issued by the KM to surface vessels, and were apparently not common on U-boats. Purely hypothetically, I could imagine sailors, a traditionally superstitious lot, not wanting to bring a tool designed specifically to kill U-boats on board their U-boat.

[Friscobay]

Even these aspects of the Unterzeebooten get interesting. And I discovered that these U-boat chronometers covered products crafted by a range of manufacturers which can plausibly include allied makers from LEONIDAS, to HANHART and DITISHEIM to go along with JUNGHANS. HANHART especially, is a great -looking chronograph which saw service in the Kriegsmarine and whose wrist-wearing devices appear on Otto Kretschmer and Reinhard Hardegen.