Ulysse Nardin Locle & Geneve IWC WWI USA Corps of Engineers Silver Pocket Watch
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Ulysse Nardin Locle & Geneve IWC WWI USA Corps of Engineers Silver Pocket Watch:
$1750.00
USA Corps of Engineers Silver Pocket Watch
Case Marked .800 Silver
WWI Pocket Watch
Case Number5675Rare historical watch produced by IWC for Corps of Engineers of AmericanExpeditionary Forcesduring WWI.
\"All watches with the inscriptions given above derive from a very narrow span of time—1917 to 1919... obviously, only the watches of the American Expeditionary Forces of World War I were marked “Property of the Corps of Engineers.” ...
...the contractors of three-hand watches were Hamilton, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron & Constantin, and Zenith. But a look at the movements and marks inside the cases often reveals that what the inscription on the dial implies is not found inside...
Many collectors are surprised aboutIWC watches for the CoE because ofthe signature “Ulysse Nardin Locle &Genéve” on the dial, eventhough inside the movement is IWC,the case bears the IWC punches, andboth case and movement have IWCserial numbers. Some of the movementsbear the IWC “Probus Scafusia”punch, but none are branded Nardin,as the Movados are. The case revealsno hint that there is a relation to Nardin.For decades these “IWC/Nardin”watches were deemed inauthentic.
But these watches (including the Ulysse Nardin dials) areall original. The IWC sales records, including the remarkin the sales ledgers, show that they were not only sold toNardin but were branded Nardin on the dial. IWC suppliedabout 1,700 of these watches in the range of serviceID numbers from 5,000 to 6,700 and another 500 piecesin the range from 10,600 to 11,100; in total, 2,144 watcheswere recorded in the IWC sales books.
Notwithstanding the brand, all CoE watches with serviceID numbers higher than 10,000 are a little bit smallerin diameter than those with service ID numbers from5,000 to 10,000. This may be because the larger ones weredesignated for railroad service, while the smaller onesserved other purposes.\"-Thomas Koenig, published inNAWCC Bulletin for March/April 2014
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Ulysse Nardin Locle & Geneve IWC WWI USA Corps of Engineers Silver Pocket Watch:
$1750.00