Sounds like the sweep hand is loose. However, this won't be the case as it will be the cam on the other side of the dial that is loose. This needs the attention of someone who has fixed these timers before. It is a simple timer or stopwatch. They are all similar only that some have more expensive movements.

Pastor Football Basketball timer by Ingraham, and Josten Sports Timer by New Haven (see also the Lawson timer by New Haven in post #2 American Stopwatch Thread- show us your American stopwatches and timers! Unless otherwise noted, any photographs and images in this post are owned by the poster and should not be used without permission.

Hi Guys hoping you can cast some light I picked up this WW1 stopwatch (artillery timer?) Alexander & Son of Coventry were known makers to the Admiralty & Army It has the mil issued equipment crows-foot and date Someone pointed out it is an English pocket watch movement that has been adapted as a...

I'm really intrigued about this pocket watch timer (see attachments) - I suspect it was made pre-1880 due to the fact that it has the words "Fine Silver" on the inside of the case and that the Crown is in the sidewinder position. I'm thinking it may even date back to the 1860s? It has the...

You have a Waltham Model 11609 , Type A, No. 105 timer/stopwatch. The large hand measures seconds in 1/5 sec. increments and the small hand measures minutes up to 30 min. This is one of many stop watch variations made by Waltham. Info from Military Timepieces by Whitney. As to exactly what it was used for, no idea.

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. It was wound “tight” and did not want to tick, but I purchased it anyway as I thought to myself, “Self, since the American Olympic trials in swimming...

The timer was also used as an instrument/tool while firing ordinance. By watching down-range, and knowing the muzzle velocity of the ordinance being fired, accurate distance and site adjustment can be calculated based on elapsed time determined to within fractions of a second.

The purpose of the gear train is to convert the slow rotation of the main wheel into the faster rotation needed to tell the time. Each wheel in the train turns faster than the previous one. Left to its own devices, the gear train would whiz along like a buzz saw, and would run down in a few seconds. What regulates its speed instead is called the escapement. The escapement has two parts. The ...

I have been trying to find out how this German ww2 timer was used to “hunt submarines”. I do not own the timer, just very curious about the markings. I’ve asked on a couple different military watch forums. I’ve received some useful feedback, but no one seems to really know, including the...

Recently acquired an Elgin stopwatch I have never seen before. The way the dial is marked it for timing a 5 mile run at between 120 and 500 miles an hour ?? It reaches the 30 mark (times 10=300) on the dial in 1 minute which as it states on the dial if you did a 5 mile run in one minute you...