Hi UG Fans

 

I know nothing about it, but I like it! Classic military piece. Interesting how the case is notched at the crown. I've never seen that before.

 

So in this kind of watch does being redialed the same as most other watch? Edit: I have no idea what a genuine dial should look like but I can see LoUs point that the clarity of the fonts and subdial points to it being redialed.

 

At least from talking to military watch aficionados it seems like re-lume jobs (or no lume in this case) aren't necessarily considered depreciating factors in evaluating value, but a redial like this is a no-no like with any other watch. Like LouS pointed out, the font and the minute/seconds track is very off.

I'm assuming that it is an arbitrary expansion of the payphone markings, but if anyone could illuminate to us a military significance in the additional "12", it would certainly be fascinating.

 

A good explanation here. By "Happy jack" on WUS.

I used to be a Royal Navy Navigator, and we always used to mark our charts for projected future times along our track by DR (dead reckoning) or EP (estimated positions) calculation, in time intervals that were simple multiples or fractions of six minutes. The reason was very simple - a 6 minutes is 1/10th of an hour. So if you ship is doing 15 knots (15 nautical miles per hour), in 6 minutes it will do 1.5 nautical miles. Depending on the scale of the chart in use, you might want to mark the chart every 3 minutes, or every 12. In the same way, we'd aim to fix our position at 6 minute (or 3 or 12 minute) intervals since we could then very quickly calculate the speed made good - as being 10 times (or 20 times or 5 times) the distance covered between adjacent fixes.

So I suspect that the 3 minute interval markings on the chrono may be to assist with navigation calculations...

 

Coincidentally, there is a mark on the upper right lug, ( when seen from the back ), that exactly matches the mark on the upper right lug, in the illustration, in the book.

As I said, coincidence.

 

Could it be mr. Knirim sold you the watch? I think it doesn't hurt to ask him whether he was the seller at the German auction or not.

 

Quite inetresting discussion indeed on a very nice UG ref.
However, I am also a bit concerned by the dial as it seems to me that "60" in the second subdial is not centered (as we can see in the picture from the book too)... and font is indeed far from what we typically saw in UG production

 

Seems to be the only one with pointed 'A' as well apart from all the things above

 

Well done. I've been gone for too long.

 

Indeed you have, I was just about to start a thread wondering where is the legendary @woodwkr2 is

 

It would be a more interesting thread than this one

 

Thanks mate. Reeeally appriciate your input here

 

Not really sure why you took that as a personal affront. As he is an invaluable reservoir of knowledge in these topics, Byron's absence is more than worth noting.

More on topic - going by your replies, you are obviously not hearing the answers that you would like to hear. As a fellow collector, I am truly sorry that you bought a watch that has a refinished dial (and I do mean it), but if you had started a thread like this before buying the watch, your inquiry would certainly not be considered pointless.