River Rat, Im still purchasing off Ebay. Expanding the project. Thanks for the help in the future Doherty Navy JROTC  4515 Barnes Road Colorado Springs, CO 80917

WM, I understand your point and know of at least one other collector aware of this auction, but holding out for an original, named Dewey,  But I disagree that this medal went for an exorbitant price  because its a  "restrike".   It's from the same Tiffany & Co. dies that the originals were struck from 70 years earlier.  There was a small,  finite number of these struck--- the last of a finite number of "restrikes" that are covered in laborious detail (the research not the reading of such)  by John and Allen in their recently released US Naval Awards of the Spanish American War.   If  it were a similar number struck for,  say,  a Morgan dollar, the FMV would be what, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars at least?  I don't know, I gave up US coin collecting for  US Navy medal collecting decades ago.   And I agree with LuftStalg1s point.   These are collectible in their own right as a genuine, true to the term,  "restrike" and not "copies" or, (gasp)  fakes.    That's why I won't be selling the one I was able to purchase from my friend, Adam, even though I was later able to purchase a couple of genuine Deweys.  Any medal collector that's ever seen a Dewey "in the bronze"  and examined it can fully appreciate the amazing high relief that was successfully achieved in this hefty die-struck medal, that as far as the art of production, I believe is in a class of it's own.    https://www.amazon.com/US-Naval-Awards-Spanish-American-War/      

I pointed one of these belts out to my dad at a gun show years back and his response was 'we didn't have all that fancy new stuff when I was in' (1966-1970). Found a pic of him and two of his nco's wearing these belts later that day. I'll post a pic when I can find it

My mistake, he was a war correspondent   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rare-colour-chronicles-of-wwii-from-london-to-the-fall-of-berlin/vi-AA1AdspT?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=b5fec562bef040e5bcebf89d8e40ffea&ei=131

Great job saving these plaques. Remember going to base clubs/ bar where you would see the walls covered with these. Down the road when I get too old and don't want mine to end up in a land fill you got contact info, I have a few I might want you to save I am not there yet. Your Navy ROTC a long way from the sea you would think Air Force.

Whitney in his book on US Military timepieces called these Torpedo boat watches. The Navy did trails on them in 1908 and paid 75-150 each for them. Wished that was the price I paid.

Now this is starting to make sense & I appreciate the effort of those that helped. I've been collecting since I returned home from Military Service in the early 70's & I don't recall where I got the holster or the cap badge, but I'm certain I got them at different times. When the Soviet Union collapsed I was in a position to get mountains of Commy items, awards, uniforms, etc. Just about anything thing I wanted except  Marshall Zhukov's uniform or awards as they are sacred & well protected. The KGB, who was selling & escorting the stuff out of Russia would not attempt to deal with Zhukov's stuff.  But they did provide an oil painting of Zhukov dated 1945 by the Official Court Artist. Bottom line both items struck me as interesting & I have never seen another of either since then.      

Just bought this off eBay the other day. Some collector's ether call these a deck watch or torpedo watch. First time I saw one of these I was new to collecting military timepieces at a mall NAWCC show I saw the Hamilton version with both boxes these are different than the WW2 ones these are the WW1 ones and rarely show up for sell they wanted a 1000 for it did not know they were worth about 3000-4000 at the time this was 20 or more years ago I passed that was a lot of money when I had no knowledge on these at the time. Think Hamilton. Longines. Elgin made these for the US Navy. You see the Longines ones more often there like 3-4 for sell on eBay for a crazy price. Saw this one 4-5 months ago he wanted 2500 was not going to pay that for the condition it was in. So seen it go down to 1400 with make offer, so I made an offer I think it was worth do to it needs a watch service badly. We made a deal. From the movement serial number, it was made around 1912 and early one. When I get it when I have time, I will drop it off at my watchmaker. In Whittney book military timepieces book he worked for the Navy repairing these called it a torpedo watch. Wonder it was used targeting torpedoes. Still a cool part of naval history.

This is an overview and on sight look at the battle.    https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/la-fière-bridge-the-bloodiest-battle-of-the-normandy-invasion/vi-AA1zU7Oa?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=0b6a8121d3344cc586c7f49d99fb5ada&ei=32

Just lines on a photo. A little alcohol and q-tips could clean most of it up, but I won't attempt it. Old news archive photo with classic galley proof art touches.