Featured Heuer Nazi stopwatch

Yikes a Nazi stop watch - one can only imagine what it was used for to time. Hopefully just athletics!!

 

I found this, that has a slide instead of a button:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/229664240/vintage-heuer-decimal-stopwatch-1930s-in

The description has some interesting information that may prove helpful.

This is a different watch, but it has the same mark on the back.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/40973731_scarce-huber-track-stopwatch

The few references I've come across suggest this type of watch is for sports events. I guess the insignia gives it an "official" status. Who knows, maybe it's from the '36 Olympics?

 

As a Navy watch, it was most likely used in taking celestial sightings. The navigator's assistant starts the stopwatch when the chronometer in the chart house hits an even minute. Then he's able to write down the exact second the navigator measures the altitude of a given celestial body. The altitude and time plus detailed tables of numbers produce a line of position for each body. Many sightings are taken around the horizon and where they all cross when plotted on a chart is the ship's position. Beenthere, donethat.

 

Torpedo runs maybe.

 

I thought of that too......after just seeing some sub docs and Hunt for Red October.......hehehe!!!!

 

My favorite book in the genre created by the late Tom Clancy.
RIP and thank you for all and especially signing my first edition HFRO and the next two!
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Recently watched U-571, K-19 and another similar as well as Crimson Tide of which I also scored a jacket I assume was for the movie crew.
Forgot to say my youngest son is a submarine veteran.

 

Cool !!!

 

Hehe, here's a seller selling what he sez is a U-boat watch 'cause there's a picture of a submarine on it. Got news for him, that's a cruiser or some other surface ship, seller needs new spectacles or something. Big dent, missing button... If link to Eboo auction not allowed maybe can use just auction no.?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-German...d9c2da9&pid=100005&rk=4&rkt=6&sd=201502241601

 

Ha!
Certainly not a sub.
That is an odd ship indeed. Looks like a warship but it's had the center upper deck blown out of it.

 

It's from his private collection Spring.......& should stay there....

 

Ha!!!!!

 

Had he sailors around in his collection instead of Army privates.... He might've known better.

 

Think the watchmaker wanted to depict a WWI-era Koenig class German battleship, some artistic approximations made.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/König-class_battleship#/media/File:König_class_battleship_-_Jane's_Fighting_Ships,_1919_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_24797.png

 

Indeed.

 

I saw that but thought you were asking.
Good for him! Thanks for his service and did he get anything from it?

 

Ah! Still have any of that?
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