Written by GoldSmithWatchWorks Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:59

Genuine

Restored - Serviced
SWISS MADE
1938-43

W.W.II

LEONIDAS
(MANY GERMAN WATCHES WERE LEONIDAS)
BRITISH
G.S.T.P
CROW FOOT
MILITARY
POCKET WATCH

WITH
W.W.II
MILITARY
POCKET FOB

AND

WALL MOUNTING

HINGED OPENING

SHADOW BOX

WITH
BRITISH MEMORABILIA
AND
HOLDER FOR WATCH & FOB

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FIRST CLASS SHADOW BOX
TABLE TOP
OR
HANG ON WALL
SNAP CATCH & HINGED
BUNGEE CORD HOLD DOWN
SO YOU MAY
WEAR THE WATCH

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THE LEONIDAS

1940	1948	1950

LEONIDAS WATCH CO. WAS FOUNDED IN 1841 AT ST. IMIER BY JULIEN BOURQUIN. LEONIDAS SPECIALIZED IN HIGH QUALITY COMPLICATED WATCHES INCLUDING MOON PHASE, TRIPLE CALENDAR, CHRONOGRPAHS AND EXCEPTIONAL MILITARY WATCHES; WHICH INCLUDED WRIST & POCKET WATCHES, ARTILLERY-BOMBER TIMERS AND AREOPLANE/AIRPLANE DASH WATCHES.

LEONIDAS ALSO WAS A MAIN SUPPLIER FOR THE GERMAN MILITARY:

WRIST WATCHES WITH NAZI EAGLE AND SWASTIKA ETCHED/ENGRAVED ONTO THE BACK OF THEIR CASES WERE STANDARD FARE.

LEONIDAS MADE THE 1940' AEREONAUTICA LEONIDAS DASH PANEL WATCH FOR MOUNTING ON GERMAN AIRPLANE DASH PANELS.

THE GERMAN NAVY (Kriegsmarine) UTILIZED LEONIDAS ARTILLERY TIMERS.

HEUER ACQUIRED THE "LEONIDAS" BRAND IN THE EARLY 1960' AND MARKETED WATCHES UNDER THE "Heuer-Leonidas" NAME.

OONE OF THE DESIGNED THAT HEUER ACQUIRED FROM LEONIDAS WAS THE "Bundeswehr" CHRONOGRAPH USED BY THE GERMAN AIR FORCE.

MANY OF THE LEONIDAS WATCHES MADE FOR THE GERMANS WERE MADE IN THE 1930'.

WITH THE OUT BREAK OF WAR IN ENGLAND, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, SEEKING QUALITY WATCHES, INVESTED IN LEONIDAS POCKET WATCHES. THEY WERE MAINLY UTILIZED AS "DECK WATCHES"

NOT ALL GS/TP [GENERAL SERVICE TIME PIECE] WATCHES WERE OF AS HIGH A QUALITY AS THOSE PURCHASED FROM LEONIDAS AND HELVETIA.

Trial of Deck Watches:
Watch horizontal, dial up, in room for 6 weeks
Watch horizontal, dial up, in oven for 1 week
Watch vertical, pendant up, in oven for 4 days
Watch vertical, pendant right, in oven for 3 days
Watch vertical, pendant left, in oven for 3 days
Watch vertical, pendant up, in oven for 4 days
Watch horizontal, dial up, in oven for 1 week
Watch horizontal, dial up, in room for 6 weeks
The mean temperature in the oven will be from 80-85 degrees Fahrenheit

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I HAVE TO SAY THAT
THIS G.S.T.P BROAD ARROW
POCKET WATCH
WITH
WWII POCKET F.O.B.
IS STUNNING

THE SEMI-RAISED BLACK OUTLINED
DIAL NUMERALS HAVE BEEN
RE-LUMED

AWESOME
LEONIDAS SIGNED DIAL
WITH
SUB-SECONDS REGISTER
AND
RAISED OUTLINED NUMERALS
WITH
BUTLER STYLE CHAPTER RING

THE ORIGINAL MILITARY HANDS
HAVE BEEN RE-LUMED

WE CHOSE TO KEEP THE
1930'S YELLOWED CELLULOID CRYSTAL
DUE TO ITS RARITY AND THE LOOK IT OFFERS
THIS LEONIDAS POCKET WATCH

THE LUMINESCENCE NUMERALS ARE BRIGHT

HANDS ARE ALSO BRIGHT

[WE CANNOT GET OUR CAMERA TO TAKE LUME PICS WITHOUT BLURRING]

ATTACHED TO THIS WW II
G.T.S.P BROAD ARROW
POCKET WATCH
IS AN AWESOME
W.W.II POCKET WATCH FOB.

 

THIS POCKET F.O.B. IS STUNNING
AND ALLOWS YOU TO
PLACE WATCH IN YOUR
SHIRT POCKET AND ALLOW
THE FOB TO DANGLE
ON THE OUTSIDE

NOTE THE CASE BACK
SIGNED
GS/TP
BROAD ARROW
CROWS FOOT
071353

THIS FINE TIME PIECE
SETS WINDS AND RUNS
GREAT

 

SIGNED
GS/TP
BROAD ARROW
CROWS FOOT
071353

THIS POCKET F.O.B. IS RARE
AND
AWESOME
AND
MAKES THIS
LEONIDAS
COMPLETE!

INTERIOR CASE BACK
SIGNED
3310226

ORIGINAL
RESTORED
OVERHAULED
SERVICED
TIMED

SIGNED
SWISS MADE
15 JEWELS
30

NOTE HOW CLEAN THIS BABY IS.
YOU CAN BUY ONE ONLINE
FOR LESS
BUT NOT IN THE CONDITION
THIS LEONIDAS IS IN!

VERY VERY SUPER NICE!

ABSOLUTELY
OVERHAULED
SERVICED
&
TIMED

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THE FIRST ITEMS WE HAVE
ADDED IS AS FOLLOWS

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TWO BRITISH RIBBONS TOP LEFT AND BOTTOM RIGHT

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TOP RIGHT

WW2 PICTURE CARD OF THE AIR BOMBING OF COVENTRY ENGLAND IN 1940

DEMONSTRATING THE WAR'S BEGINNING AND ENGLAND'S GREAT BATTLE BY HERSELF.  THE CARD IS IN A PLASTIC HOLDER SO YOU MAY REMOVE THIS HISTORIC TRIBUTE ON THE BACK OF THE CARD.

 

 

BOTTOM LEFT

[with noted Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, H.R. Trevor-Roper  "Men & Events"]

Bernard Montgomery was born in 1887. In 1908 at the age of 21, he was commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served on the Western Front during World War One. Eventually, with command posts in Britain and in India, by 1938 he was promoted to the rank of major-general.

Montgomery was given the command of the Third Division (BEF) that was part of the British Expeditionary Force in World War Two that withstould the might of the Wehrmacht’s 'Blitzkrieg' and had to be evacuated at Dunkirk..

After the failure of the first battle at El Alamein, Montgomery was given command of the Eighth Army in North Africa and he drove his army to  victory at El Alamein and turned the tide of the war in Africa. In fact, this was the first defeat of the Germans and, with US Forces on the ground, the Germans could only retreat and quit North Africa in 1943.

At D-Day, Montgomery commanded the British and Canadian units at Normandy.

On September 1st 1944, Montgomery was promoted to field marshall, the highest rank he could reach in the British Army.

Montgomery commanded the 21st Army Group that succeeded in taking the vital port of Antwerp in Belgium.

The 21st Group was involved in the Battle of the Bulge – Germany’s ill-fated attempt to push back the Allies.

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