IWC B-Uhr Revision

[alfat33]

Well Gentlemen, the puzzle has been solved !!!
.My watchmaker got in contact with the person in charge of the town archives of Gräfenheinichen, they dug into their files for information on O.Gräfe...
They gave him the name and tel. no. of his successor, and he was surprised that O Gräfes successor was awaiting his tel call. Apparantly the town archives had got in contact with him shortly after speaking to my watchmaker.

This is what was told:
Otto Gräfe (as on the piece of paper O.Gräfe) was indeed a watchmaker and jewler in that town, he was repairing watches for the Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe untill around 1944, he decided to join the SS, which was his downfall. He was sent to Stalingrad, where he died.
The successor spoke of an old box somewhere in the basement/cellar where, if he remembered rightly, were a few tools and watch parts, still stored from the war years.
Watch this space...the best is yet to come !

Jimmy

So any update on this fascinating story? Was there a secret stash of NOS B-Uhr parts?

[trident-7]

Classic thread, very interesting