I have seen this problem many of times, and a lot of times the hands are just not set right on the watch. Inside there are heart shaped cams that reset the hands to zero, it is possible that they or the levers are gummed up, or there are other mechanical problems. There can be multiple reasons why the hands don't reset to zero. It was a Waltham pocket watch captured from a Japanese patrol boat off Manilla Harbor in 1942 by the US sub USS Salmon. It shows a title starting with a capital "J" and possibly followed by an "a," the beginning of the word "Jagd?" Could this possibly be an instruction manual for this watch? But without sonar I don't see how this information would have been obtained; and with sonar, I don't see any reason for the instrument we're discussing. To my knowledge German subs, at least, never had sonar. URL