Elgin 1943 USN Military Stop Watch - NAWCC Forums This is a minute timer with a 30 minute register I don't have this specific model to compare but have a similar 10 second model with a 6 minute register with the Mini balance wheel When the detent stem is pushed the hands lock but the movement keeps running then on the second push the hands will return to "0" Most hack watches have a wire lever that pushes against the balance wheel that is
WW2 German Timer, U-Jagd - NAWCC Forums I have been trying to find out how this German ww2 timer was used to "hunt submarines" I do not own the timer, just very curious about the markings I've asked on a couple different military watch forums I've received some useful feedback, but no one seems to really know, including the owner of the timer It was apparently listed as a torpedo timer in some collecting book, but that probably
Need help Identifying Elgin stopwatch timer | NAWCC Forums Recently acquired an Elgin stopwatch I have never seen before The way the dial is marked it for timing a 5 mile run at between 120 and 500 miles an hour ?? It reaches the 30 mark (times 10=300) on the dial in 1 minute which as it states on the dial if you did a 5 mile run in one minute you
Resetting chronograph hands to zero - NAWCC Forums Hello, This is probably a naive question for experienced members of the forum, but it's one that I've been wondering about a long time, so here goes: what is (are) typically the underlying cause(s) when the hands do not reset properly to zero in a mechanical chronograph? What is the required
Waltham STOP watch. Any ideas?? | NAWCC Forums You have a Waltham Model 11609 , Type A, No 105 timer stopwatch The large hand measures seconds in 1 5 sec increments and the small hand measures minutes up to 30 min This is one of many stop watch variations made by Waltham Info from Military Timepieces by Whitney As to exactly what it was used for, no idea
Meylan Stopwatch Corp. ? | NAWCC Forums I just acquired another MEYLAN stopwatch at a small antique mall in Ferdinand, IN for five bucks, just seemed like to good of a deal to pass up It was wound “tight” and did not want to tick, but I purchased it anyway as I thought to myself, “Self, since the American Olympic trials in swimming
Unusual Military Pocket Watch stopwatch conversion? Hi Guys hoping you can cast some light I picked up this WW1 stopwatch (artillery timer?) Alexander Son of Coventry were known makers to the Admiralty Army It has the mil issued equipment crows-foot and date Someone pointed out it is an English pocket watch movement that has been adapted as a
Elgin Jitterbugs - NAWCC Forums The timer was also used as an instrument tool while firing ordinance By watching down-range, and knowing the muzzle velocity of the ordinance being fired, accurate distance and site adjustment can be calculated based on elapsed time determined to within fractions of a second
Elgin A-8 Bomb timer - NAWCC Forums It's an Elgin grade 582 'Jitterbug' timer Made in 1943, in this case It's not really a stopwatch in the standard sense It runs as long as there's power in the mainspring It uses what are essentially chronograph works to connect the hands to the train It should be running at 30 bps, so that the hand, if it were there, would go around in 10 seconds, and the minute register hand ticks over
American Stopwatch Thread- show us your American stopwatches and timers . . . Pastor Football Basketball timer by Ingraham, and Josten Sports Timer by New Haven (see also the Lawson timer by New Haven in post #2 American Stopwatch Thread- show us your American stopwatches and timers! Unless otherwise noted, any photographs and images in this post are owned by the poster and should not be used without permission
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