Why does the lock object have to be static?

It is very common to use a private static readonly object for locking in multi threading. I understand that private reduces the entry points to the locking object by tightening the encapsulation and therefore access to the most essential.

But why static?

private static readonly object Locker = new object();

At the end the field is only used within my class only, and I could also just use this instead:

private readonly object Locker = new object();

Any comments?

UPDATE:

As an example I have pasted this code (just an example). I could use static or non-static locker on this and both would work fine. Considering the answer below I should be rather defining my locker like this?

private readonly object Locker = new object();

And here is the code:

    private int _priceA;
    private int _priceB;
    private EventWaitHandle[] _waithandle;
    private readonly IService _service;

//ctor
public ModuleAViewModel(IService service)
    {
        _service = service;
        _modelA = new ModelA();
        _waithandle = new ManualResetEvent[2];
        _waithandle[0] = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        _waithandle[1] = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        LoadDataByThread();
    }


 private void LoadDataByThread()
        {
            new Thread(() =>
                           {
                               new Thread(() =>
                               {
                                   lock (Locker)
                                   {
                                       _priceA = _service.GetPriceA();
                                   }
                                   _waithandle[0].Set();
                               }).Start();

                               new Thread(() =>
                               {
                                   lock (Locker)
                                   {