ANITQUE REAR Hawker Hurricane MK 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia MILITARY AIRCRAFT CLOCK

Description

ANITQUE REAR Hawker Hurricane MK 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia MILITARY AIRCRAFT CLOCK.
A very rare clock with the initials NESTOR BELGRADE of the company that was in charge of purchasing the watches for Royal Airforce of Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The plane to which this clock belongs was produced in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and here is a part from the history of the plane itself.
In late 1937, the
Royal Yugoslav Air Force
(
Serbo-Croatian Latin
:
Vazduhoplovstvo Vojske Kraljevine Jugoslavije
, VVKJ) placed an order with
Hawker Aircraft
for twelve
Hawker Hurricane
Mk I
fighters
, the first foreign purchase of the aircraft. The
Royal Yugoslav Air Force
(VVKJ) operated the British
Hawker Hurricane
Mk I from 1938 to 1941. Between 1938 and 1940, the VVKJ obtained 24 Hurricane Mk Is from early production batches, marking the first foreign sale of the aircraft. Twenty additional aircraft were built by
Zmaj
under licence in
Yugoslavia
. When the country was drawn into
World War II
by the
German-led Axis invasion
of April 1941, a total of 41 Hurricane Mk I's were in service as fighters. They achieved some successes against
Luftwaffe
aircraft, but all Yugoslav Hurricanes were destroyed or captured during the 11-day invasion.
In mid-1944, the
Yugoslav Partisans
formed two
Royal Air Force
squadrons, Nos.
351
and
352
, which both operated Hurricane
fighter-bombers
. No. 351 Squadron flew Hurricane Mk IICs during training and was later equipped with Hurricane Mk IVs, and No. 352 briefly flew Hurricane Mk IICs during training before re-equipping with
Supermarine Spitfire
Mk Vs. Both squadrons operated as part of
No. 281 Wing RAF
of the
Balkan Air Force
, conducting ground attack missions in support of Partisan operations until the end of the war. Hurricanes remained in service with the post-war
Yugoslav Air Force
until the early 1950s.
Size of the clock is: 9.5 x 9.5 x 5 cm.
Considering that all the planes were destroyed, this as itself is an extremely rare specimen, perhaps unique because I could not find information about a similar clock.
Photos are part of description. Please take a look at them in order to have a better and complete idea of condition.