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Eintrag vom: 10.05.2013.

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.

 

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 ...

 

This chronograph has three sub-dials. One at the bottom of the face above the 6 which continuously indicates seconds. The other two normally should be at zero and come active along with the long second hand when using the stop watch function. One of the small dials by the 10 and 11...

 

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.

 

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...

 

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...

 

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.

 

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...

 

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...

 

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 ...