The pocket watch was crafted in 1910 by Alfred Overstrijd ... Both Overstrijd brothers were ultimately sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and did not survive the Holocaust.

History: The first watches made were German pocket watches dating back to the 1600s. Craftsmen filed each part by hand and timepieces took months to create. Wristwatches didn’t become popular ...

This silver pocket watch saved the life of a World War One soldier fighting for Britain on the Somme - by stopping a German bullet from piercing his chest. The two-inch timepiece was unearthed by ...

The pocket watch - covered in Nazi insignia and with a special medal commemorating the date - is believed to have been produced for the party faithful. Border guards in Grzechotki, Poland ...

Unlike so many of its neighboring watch houses, Tutima was not part of the golden age of German pocket-watch production in the late 19th century. The brand arose from the economic chaos that ...

A gold German pocket watch worth $2,000 has been reported stolen from a house in the 300 block of East Woodland Road, a police report said. The watch was reported missing Sept. 11, the report said.

In a discontinuous, meditative fugue in the middle of the book, he realizes that his own disintegration, the pieces of a pocket watch falling apart, the end of his marriage, and the end of the ...

By David Belcher An Alpina pocket watch plays a prominent role in a new German-language film adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” the 1929 World War I novel by Erich Maria Remarque ...

The pocket watch was crafted in 1910 by Alfred Overstrijd ... Both Overstrijd brothers were ultimately sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and did not survive the Holocaust.