1939 Lemania Majetek Ref. 261 Czech Air Force Pilot's Large Watch - Stainless Steel

Today's offering showcases a very cool and historically significant Lemania Majetek Ref. 261, originally issued to the Czech Air Force just before WWII. Bearing the military inscription “Majetek Vojenské Správy" ("Property of the Military Administration"), this timepiece represents a rare and authentic piece of aviation and horological history. And aviation in 1939 was a rough frontier.Commissioned during the tense years preceding the outbreak of World War II, these watches were issued to pilots tasked with defending one of Europe's most endangered frontiers. Lemania, already known for crafting rugged and precise chronographs, produced these watches for military aviators whose missions were anything but routine.One can only imagine the journeys this watch may have endured: strapped to the wrist of a Czech pilot navigating over the Sudetenland under the looming threat of occupation...witnessing the retreat and regrouping of Czech forces... or later perhaps worn in exile by airmen who jo