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lucentcrow
·The stories they could tell !!! Smiths Jaeger MK111b cockpit clock from 1939, Omega www dirty dozen, Omega 53 thin arrow, Omega 6b/159 😊
The stories they could tell
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Canuck
·This Omega from my collection was on the wrist of the original owner who was in a helicopter, the day the copter crashed. They both survived.
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lucentcrow
·This Omega from my collection was on the wrist of the original owner who was in a helicopter, the day the copter crashed. They both survived.
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kfranzk
·Ok, history, stories, war timers...
- Here is a collection of Bomb Timers before and in WWII
- Used by Italian, French, Yugoslavian and other Air Forces...
- Made by Minerva, Leonidas, Longines, Breitling, Universal, Zenith... Some are seller marked by Lip, Vial-Paris, Cairelli-Roma...
- a product sheet by Breitling, a photo of the use in an Italian war plane
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lucentcrow
·Ok, history, stories, war timers...
- Here is a collection of Bomb Timers before and in WWII
- Used by Italian, French, Yugoslavian and other Air Forces...
- Made by Minerva, Leonidas, Longines, Breitling, Universal, Zenith... Some are seller marker by Vial-Paris, Cairelli- Roma...
- a product sheet by Breitling, a photo of the use in an Italian war plane
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dsstephens
·Some really cool and unique pieces! I've not really seen these bomb timers. here goes another rabbit hole!
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kfranzk
·I add a text from the famous US book author on chronometers and military timepieces Marvin Whitney:
"British World War II Bombardier time recorder/countdown strap leg watch made by Wittnauer, ca 1941.
The rotatable bezel is set with a luminous triangular pointer. The single hand makes 2 ½ revolutions per minute and is started by a single depression of the crown, resulting in the hand oving clockwise.
When countdown is to begin, the crown is depressed twice, causing the hand to retrogress (counterclockwise) to zero.
Then ‘bombs away’.
The push piece, located at 1 the crown will return it to zero."
So obviously there was a bomb timer sold by Wittnauer, what ever the producer was, and used by the RAF. I would have supposed, Wittnauer supplied to the US Forces (Army Air Corps)?
Konrad
"British World War II Bombardier time recorder/countdown strap leg watch made by Wittnauer, ca 1941.
The rotatable bezel is set with a luminous triangular pointer. The single hand makes 2 ½ revolutions per minute and is started by a single depression of the crown, resulting in the hand oving clockwise.
When countdown is to begin, the crown is depressed twice, causing the hand to retrogress (counterclockwise) to zero.
Then ‘bombs away’.
The push piece, located at 1 the crown will return it to zero."
So obviously there was a bomb timer sold by Wittnauer, what ever the producer was, and used by the RAF. I would have supposed, Wittnauer supplied to the US Forces (Army Air Corps)?
Konrad
