17th Dec, 2025 9:30
IWC - A B-UHR Pilot's Navigation Watch
Reference: FL23883
Serial: 1034044
Year: circa 1940s
Bezel: Smooth
Case Material: Stainless Steel
Case Diameter: Approximately 55mm
Dial: Black, Radium-filled Sword Hands
Numerals: Arabic, Minute Track
Crown: Fluted (Potential Replacement)
Movement: IWC, numbered ‘1014704’
Strap: Deficient
Gross Weight: Approximately 148.5 grams
Thinking of Selling a Watch?
If you’d like to sell an IWC watch, Dawsons can help you achieve the best possible price. Our friendly experts offer free valuations and clear advice, guiding you through a seamless selling process. It’s simple and risk-free to sell your watch with Dawsons. If our expert team value your watch at £1,000 or more, we will sell your watch at no cost to you at all, which means you will pay no seller’s commission, no entry fees, no marketing fees, you will pay nothing… there are no hidden charges. Once your watch is successfully sold, you’ll receive 100% of the sale (hammer) price.
For your protection, every watch with an estimate over £1,500 is checked against the Watch Register. This is an independent company who hold the world’s largest, most established, international database of lost, stolen, and fake watches, containing data compiled over 35 years – providing Dawsons’ buyers with complete peace of mind.
No long-term tests have been performed and accuracy cannot be guaranteed. A full service is advised on all watches and pocket watches once purchased.
It is also important to note that we cannot guarantee the authenticity or originality of individual components, such as wheels, hands, crowns, crystals, screws, bracelets, and wrist bands, since subsequent repairs and restoration may have changed the original components. Also, we cannot guarantee the authenticity or originality of any engraving or re-engraving on watch cases, case backs, bracelets, straps or internal movements.
Sold for £3,500
IWC - A B-UHR Pilot's Navigation Watch
Reference: FL23883
Serial: 1034044
Year: circa 1940s
Bezel: Smooth
Case Material: Stainless Steel
Case Diameter: Approximately 55mm
Dial: Black, Radium-filled Sword Hands
Numerals: Arabic, Minute Track
Crown: Fluted (Potential Replacement)
Movement: IWC, numbered ‘1014704’
Strap: Deficient
Gross Weight: Approximately 148.5 grams
Thinking of Selling a Watch?
If you’d like to sell an IWC watch, Dawsons can help you achieve the best possible price. Our friendly experts offer free valuations and clear advice, guiding you through a seamless selling process. It’s simple and risk-free to sell your watch with Dawsons. If our expert team value your watch at £1,000 or more, we will sell your watch at no cost to you at all, which means you will pay no seller’s commission, no entry fees, no marketing fees, you will pay nothing… there are no hidden charges. Once your watch is successfully sold, you’ll receive 100% of the sale (hammer) price.
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