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All I can imagine is you need it to eclipse some extraordinary dial gauge that is otherwise distracting your view.
Buy it if you like, do you know where the shop is, in the covered market?
It really doesn’t look very nice in the flesh, regardless of historical significance. Anything of historical significance deserves to be in a publicly accessible exhibition space.
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They're that big because the vibrations and shaking in planes of that era made it difficult to read normal size wristwatches during a mission. That and chronometer movements were huge in those days. Chronometers were necessary because they were actually used for navigation.
Was going to ask which shop. Will call them. I have always wanted a real B-Uhr and that looks like a corker. There is a much less good condition Laco on eBay for £8k at the moment that caught my eye.
Stonehedge
So its 50mm+ across but its a piece of horoglogical history! How on earth is that ghastly?
I'm fairly sure that Oxford High Street isn't known for historically significant mint condition collectors pieces...