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Friends, before I get back to another Novelty review tomorrow (stay tuned), let's share two fresh shots of my Mimo WW2 Military watch issued to the German army. Girard-Perregaux or Mimo do not have a large background on military watches, so this is quite an unusual one within the historic collection
Lovely! Still hunting for mine.... Best Blomman
this is because after the war GP tried to destroy as many Mimo marked DH watches as possible so their company name would not be associated with the Nazi regime.
My Mimo is fine and not a Nazi watch as it was a stock watch that was never delivered to the German army and hence also does not have the DH stamp on the case back. That may make it a no-go for military freaks, but I don't care.
as several years ago I did a fair amount of research into a Mimo watch. I can tell you that in 1941 the Mimo trademark was owned by Graeff and Company, by 1943, Mimo was listed as a trademark of Girard-Perregaux.
that GP destroyed DH Mimo's after the war.
I will look for the information but after the war many German military issued items were either destroyed of taken as โspoils of warโ
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