Universal Geneve for Chatham Instruments in Steel

CIRCA: 1940s
CASE MATERIAL: Stainless steel
CASE DIMENSIONS: 33 mm in diameter
DIAL: Black military-style with luminous-painted Arabic hour markers, white outer seconds track, and inner 24-hour track
BRACELET MATERIAL: Brown alligator-textured leather
BRACELET SIZE: 6-1/4 to 7-3/4 inches
MOVEMENT: Manual wind
FUNCTIONS: Time only
CALIBER: Universal Geneve Cal 263

Chatham Instrument Co. was primarily a maker of nautical clocks. Many Chatham clocks were used by the British in WWII. Chatham commissioned Universal Geneve to make wristwatches using a Chatham-signed Universal Calibre 263