Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Reconnaissance Navigation watches last three of 21 left in world with serial number plates from Zeros, Reconnaissance Fighters, and Interceptors.
That is so great you get a chance to preserve these watches, so much history in them.
That is so great you get a chance to preserve these watches, so much history in them.
Well it would be great to think so. I am sure there are many that still view these at somehow evil, but they were from what I have been able to uncover, reconnaisance watches used to get a fixed position. Nothing indicates that they were used in Pearl Harbor. The boys that were forced to go to the Yokaren were divided by aptituted into two groups, those that would be fighter pilots and those with high skills in mathematics which would go to the navigation and reconnaisance training. There is a book that shows the reconnaisance group were issued Seikosha (they were clearly not Kamikaze watches in the beginning). The Longines Tensoku Weems were before the Seikosha Tensoku
You may see these Longines Weems in a year appear in a book containing a chapter on Japanese military watches.
Thread 'Weems and the Luftwaffe: Hour Angle Watches by Longines, Lange, PP and V&C' ·
Timing Instruments for German Aviation before WWII:
In 1933 the technical department of the German Aviation Ministry (RLM: Reichs-Luftfahrtministerium) tested the hour angle watch of Longines...