Hello
everyone. I'm Colin from Scotland.
I recently came across an IWC watch I inherited from my grandfather. It's
been in a drawer for years (he died in 1973) and doesn't have the strap so
I've never worn it. Thought I'd do some research on it and found out the
W.W.W. mark on the back means it was one of the "Dirty Dozen" commissioned by
the British MOD in 1944/45.
I spoke to a very helpful dealer who told me a little about these watches but
he said the dial is not what would have been the original (white face and no
arrow mark). He thinks it is most likely it's been replaced at some point.
My grandfather saw service in WWW 1 but was in the Home Guard during WWW 2,
which is why (I assume) he had it. The odd thing (to me anyway) is that from
what I know, he would have been unlikely to have gone to the effort of
swapping out the dial for a non-military version, especially since a new IWC
dial would presumably have been costly? Unless he was concerned about the
radiation! Neither the dial or the hands are luminous.
The only identification on it is the serial number on the case, which is
probably the MOD serial number rather than IWC.
Is there anyway that IWC would be able to tell me more about the watch?