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U-Boat Classico Titanium U-72 Automatic Watch

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U-Boat Classico Titanium U-72 Automatic Watch

BlueSkies

Jul 22, 2018

Oh boy, time does eventually erase all memory. Apparently, it doesn't take very long at all. It's now fashionable to wear jewelry based on a piece of Nazi German technology? Jewelry of all things, to be worn with pride? This is tacky and in very bad form. In fact, on a certain level, it's sick.

Brooksca

Jul 23, 2018

BlueSkiesThank you, I was thinking the very same thing. Time seems to be spending up and memory seems shortening. The men whom fought are almost all gone and most of their children's children haven't a clue; schools rewrite the past, so I suppose most just think a U-boat is like slang or something for Your boat or something.

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A community member

Aug 6, 2018

BlueSkiesI'm a bit confused.
The german word for Submarine is and has always been "U-Boot" and that in and of itself is completely neutral. Just because there's a hollywood WW2 flick titled "U-Boat" doesn't make this watch (or the word itself) a political commentary of some sort.

BlueSkies

Aug 6, 2018

WWII Nazi Germany can't be rationalized away like that and it has absolutely nothing to do with "Hollywood". It's about our wartime enemy torpedoing ships and killing thousands of our soldiers and civilians. If you're interested in the technology, that's understandable, but wearing a testament to it on your wrist as jewelry is wrong. Of course what's most unsettling is knowing that we have reached a point in time when young people aren't able to understand things like that anymore without having it explained to them. Dark times ahead..

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A community member

Aug 7, 2018

BlueSkiesI guess

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cdsmith46

Oct 5, 2018

I agree totally. It's a watch; it is not a u-boat, or a war souvenir. It's a watch, nothing more. Anything you choose to attach to that , you must own. We are 2-3 generations out of WW2. We have thousands of Japanese products in america now, sold by americans to americans. There are also thousands of German products now sold in america. It is what you choose to make it in your own mind.

BlueSkies

Oct 5, 2018

cdsmith46"German products" LOL.. I'm of 100% German heritage myself and both of my American parents served our nation during WW2. I'll pass along your thanks to them for the freedom you enjoy today.
Here's a link about U-72, the namesake of this watch. You will notice that this is in the history section on "Nazi Germany": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-72_%281940%29
Hmmmm I wonder what your great uncle, who was a civilian killed by the crew of U-72 while he was crossing the Atlantic, would think about this beautiful watch?

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