Germany, Imperial. An Unusual Pocket Watch to a Military Engineer with Danish and German Dedications Hold Footnote: The Order of Merit

Footnote: The Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a distinguished honourary order of Luxembourg

one of three clips intact

is a Roman Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the Holy See

obverse inscribed "I NELSON COPPER D

issued on the Eastern Front on 8 March 1944 and featuring the handwritten signature of an unidentified Obest and stand-in divisional commander

Germany, Imperial. An Unusual Pocket Watch to a Military Engineer with Danish and German Dedications Hold Footnote: The Order of Merit(Taschenuhr). An interesting, wartime attributed pocket watch, constructed of a plated non magnetic steel casing, featuring a white dial white hour markers 1 12 in Arabic numerals, featuring hour and minute hands with an additional 60 second stopwatch situated at the lower half, retaining an original glass face and topped by a pendant, crown, and bow, featuring a retractable caseback and dust cover, the former bearing an engraved Danish language