Description
AESCHBACH UROFA 58 watch.
MADE IN GERMAN REICH!
Manufactured at the Pforzheim watch factory “WEBER & AESCHBACH”, GERMAN REICH.
Two German firms made this watch. The movement is the calibre 58 from UROFA — Uhren-Rohwerkefabrik AG of Glashütte in Saxony — the “Raumnutzwerk” or space-saving movement, built from 1940 and one of the calibres that served as the Wehrmacht standard. The case and dial come from WEBER & AESCHBACH of Pforzheim, who bought the movement blanks from Glashütte and finished the watch under their own name.
The dial follows the wartime service-watch pattern: black, with gilt Arabic numerals, luminous dots on the minute track and luminous hands. Aeschbach is one of the names collectors look for on a UROFA 58.
The case back carries a hand-scratched “RLM” and a scratched number, both shown in the photographs. They are cut by hand rather than stamped. Reich Air Ministry property marks were applied as stamps and carried an inventory number, and time-only service watches of this pattern were normally issued with no property marking at all, so these scratches are not evidence that this particular watch was issued to the Luftwaffe.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original german “Aeschbach” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
CASE SIZE 42.5x38mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 10.5mm
LUG WIDTH 19.5mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT Urofa 58
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
ORIGINAL CONDITION
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with green nylon NATO strap.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
Case back with hand-scratched RLM marking
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About the watch factory
The company WEBER & AESCHBACH was founded on 1st April 1923 by the merchant Philipp Weber, ex-manager of the Marabu factory in Tamm and the clockmaker Jakob Aeschbach. The aim: To assemble pocket and wrist watches. The company was based in two spacious attic rooms on 6 Tal and 53 Güterstraße. 20 years after their founding WEBER & AESCHBACH was now employing 900 people in eight assembly workshops.
On February 23rd 1945 still in the throes of WW II, the city of Pforzheim had to pay the ultimate price when Allied bombers flattened the city in less than twenty minutes. WEBER & AESCHBACH continued to exist only in name.
In 1941 Jakob Aeschbach left the joint company and went to Switzerland (Biningen near Basel)
On 21st October 1947 WEBER & AESCHBACH was renamed ARCTOS-UHRENFABRIK PHILIPP WEBER.
