I doubt that this watch was authorised by Stanley.
There seems to be a thriving business in making new watches with
"interesting" dial illustrations.
My father was one of about 400 survivors of the sinking of HMS Barham in
1941.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFMfTfMCSU
There can be few if any of the survivors alive now and therefore, I would
have thought, very little interest in a Royal Naval battleship sunk more
than seventy years ago.
And yet, and yet, on ebay someone is offering for sale HMS Barham watches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFMfTfMCSU
I suspect that your Stanley watch falls into the same speculative "Let's
make a few and see whether they sell" category.
best wishes,
Mike Lynd
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