Does anyone have an instruction manual or original box for such a watch? The large hand measures seconds in 1/5 sec. Increments and the small hand measures minutes up to.
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The way the dial is marked it for timing a 5 mile run at between 120 and 500 miles an hour ?? It was wound “tight” and did not. 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.
Stop watches stop and start the train and escapement, whereas the elgin timer's train and escapement run.
You have a waltham model 11609 , type a, no. The elgin timer is not really a stop watch in the standard sense. It is actually a ground navigation timer not a bomb timer. When flying over the ground you would start the timer at a known landmark then stop it at another some distance.
On the case and movement. Recently acquired an elgin stopwatch i have never seen before.
