The third link is to a watch which is marked for the military. The first one has no evidence whatever and the second one shows a lot of photos from a book, but it is not the watch on offer. The fact that two E-Bay sellers claim their watches to be pilot's watches, without any supporting evidence, does not make it so. Thanks again for your help i feel i am getting somewhere now. Kreis later became the owner of the famous manufacturer of regulators, Strasser and Rohde of Glashuette.or? Kreis in Berlin, as was indicated on the enameled dial. The aircraft watches had nickel or iron cases and are often not in good condition today.
These were sometimes signed 'Gold gab ich fuer Eisen', which means, in a double sense, 'I gave gold for iron, i.e., weapons'. There is a story about the iron cases for watches: At the time of WWI, the German war industry needed gold and silver for military production purposes, so there was a campaign to exchange gold cases for iron cases.
They were marked 'Eigentum der Fliegertruppen', which means 'property of the flying troops' and 'P.u.W.' with a propeller with wings on the back of the case. The first military airplanes had cockpit watches, which were like pocket watches, which hung on the instrument panel with the winding knob downward and the second hand at the 12. I have found this now so thinking it may be aviator? I got waltham from a serial number database. the mistery it says argentan!!! much microscopic help with the iphone Hope this may be of help and if you can provide further information and/or clearer pictures we may be able to solve 'Argentina' more definitely.
Waltham is an American manufacturer, not Swiss. I am not sure how you arrived at the date of 1888 bfor your watch but it cannot be right, since the patent on the watch was not granted till 1907. 3 which is so out of focus that I cannot see anything) but Argentina was one of the marks of James Calame-Robert (La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland) who made watch movements and cases. You have not shown the word Argentina which you say you can see (unless it was photo No. I am not suffuciently expert in watch movements to recognise it from the movement but others may be able to confirm it is a Doxa watch. In 1889 Ducommun started the Doxa Watch factory in Le Locle, so it may well be that they made your watch. The number 33236 is not the serial number of the watch, it is Swiss Patent No.33236 which was granted in 1907 to Georges Ducommun of Le Locle, Switzerland, and was in relation to a watch movement with longer than usual running time, hence the '8 days' written on the dial.
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