Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Auction Archive American watch houses ceased civilian

American watch houses ceased civilian production during these years and devoted themselves to producing timing instruments for the war

in zinc (oakleaves in gilded bronze)

measuring at 81

A 1941 edition of “Tigerflagge heiß vor

the insignia tab bearing silver-grey machine-embroidered Sig runes

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Auction Archive American watch houses ceased civilian(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Instituted in April 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a raised sheet metal hinge, with a slightly tapered vertical pinback, and a flat stamped catch, an unmarked example but