English wwi cyma pocket watch g.s.t.p. m61904
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Lots purchased online with will attract an additional charge for this service in the sum of 3% of the hammer price plus VAT at the rate imposed Pocket watches were used by the military by various branches that needed precision timing for artillery,airborne,transportation operations.And also better one's for the Airforce and Navy for navigation.And they varied in constuction in size apperance and parts for the American military Elgin,Hamilton,Waltham were the main brands remember pocket watches were still being made and sold up to the 1950's by these companies the military took any thing they could buy to get the job done and these watches did the job.Some had as little as 7 jewel to as many as 22 jewels.And they did keep better time than the wrist watch of the day.A plus for Navigtion no GPS in WW2.PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR ANY LOT PURCHASED AT BAMFORDS AND PAID FOR OVER THE TELEPHONE USING A VALID PAYMENT CARD WE MUST INSIST THAT IN ORDER TO COLLECT THE ITEMS THE PURCHASER OR AGENT MUST PROVIDE THE ORIGINAL CARD PAYMENT SLIP OR A PHOTOCOPY OF THE SLIP BEFORE THE GOODS WILL BE RELEASEDīuyers Premium is 17.5% if the account is settled within 1 week of the sale, increasing to 20% thereafter Why were they continued to be made for the army/navy/air-force, if wristwatches were available? I think you have to handle one of these watches to really appreciate what a serious peice of kit it is!Ĭan someone explain to me why military pocket watches continued to exist after WWI? I always thought that it was the relative inconvenience of a pocket watch that caused it to be phased OUT of the military instead.
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The issue number corresponds to the last four digits of the movement serial number. The casebacks had the orignal HS3 markings struck out and replaced by NATO stock numbers. On this dial, basic time-telling functions were relegated to the small centre scale, with seconds/minutes being read from the middle scale, emphasised in red.
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These were first issued to the Royal Navy Hydrographic Service around 1942 and, after the end of the Second World War, were returned to the admiralty at Herstmonceaux Castle where the original dials were replaced with ones like the example below.
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This one appears to have an original (or very old, at least) lanyard and its original crystal which displays some scary Radium burns from the luminous dial:Īnd lastly, a Zenith HS3. Next, an American-made Elgin, 7-jewel, Grade 291, circa 1941, exported to England and issued to the British army as a GS MkII general service timepiece. Basically the same as the army issue G.S.T.P's above except for being non-luminous: Three more WW2 era, military pocket watches landed todayįirst up, a no-make 6E/50 RAF observer's/navigator's watch.