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Hard to see things from this photo alone, but here's what I think I see: Dive watch, -or at least dive style-, black dial, huge triangular lumed indices, also I think I see a big lumed hour hand. Unfortunately there is a huge number of such watches from many makers, they were very popular at the time. Some were very cheap with plated cases and pin-lever movements, some were proper, steel dive watches. Here's one example, from the more "affordable" side :
https://preview.redd.it/bh19mia7hi0c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=690a0fe7a5149d3254e7843d444547f2dc133b60
Thank you! This certainly looks like the right kind of thing and I know the image isn't much to go on.
If it helps at all, Dad was a great believer in Army/Navy surplus kit and often bought yachting supplies from the gigantic ramshackle stores that flogged off old military equipment from the immediate post-WW2 period. I have no specific reason to believe that this watch may have come from such a store, but it would fit with his character!