Reply With QuoteLooks like something they used to fix to dashboards in military vehicles.
Eterna and a few others used to supply various styles for timing purposes .
I could be wrong as others I have seen had 4 mounting holes in the case plate.
Have anyone seen this lemania example?
Looks like something they used to fix to dashboards in military vehicles.
Eterna and a few others used to supply various styles for timing purposes .
I could be wrong as others I have seen had 4 mounting holes in the case plate.
Looks like a dashboard or instrument panel case / fixture to me.
Cheers..
Jase
Nope, never seen that before (and I do not say that very often for Lemania stuff)
Nero Lemania were the brand Lemania AG offered a lot of their industrial timers from, mostly stopwatches, but also including chronographs and their aircraft clocks (civil and military).
It is not a name often seen on watches, per se, although they do exist (and I have one).
It looks relatively small, can you give us an idea of scale please, and show us the crown arrangements and movement please.
I see the stub of a stem at 3, where did it come out of the case, and do you have the crown to suit?
A movement shot and serial might be able to date this, roughly at least.
Thanks
Dave
Was thinking about that one just the other day. The BBC one, right?Originally Posted by sweets
Yes, a firm favourite. I have seen a few examples identical to mine too, but not many others.
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case size approx 30 mm
I can't find the crown but It was genuine to this case in black
Nice movement . Can you date it from the serial with Lemania ?
Just throw it on eBay with a 0.99 start and see where it ends up. Otherwise I suppose you could ask others to figure out what it is, get an idea of the value, then throw it on with a ridiculous buy it now price.
I've had some collection of Lemania watches long time ago but it was huge mistake to get rid of it
Movement if current example is simple and is based of Omega Chrono if I am not wrong
Might be special watch so better to keep such examples otherwise it will be sold in my estimate 250 - 450 any currency
It probably is rare. Maybe there are just a handful out there, or it could even be unique like the legendary sub-seconds Hamilton.
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It is a 31** movement, and at a guess from the serial it is from the early 1950s. Nice movement.
What on earth the case was screwed onto, I have no idea.
I guess a dashboard or control panel of some type, there is no marking, no external serial, no bezel, no sign of waterproofing, so for use inside, not out in the elements.
It is not a military item, it would be marked otherwise.
Dave
>HookedSeven
I've been last owner of this marriage watch
it's been spited and sold for parts
At 30mm it could be a gun camera clock?
These were quite common once upon a time. Used in front of a camera lens to record the length of firing of an aircrafts guns
The camera was used to record accuracy and linked to the trigger.
The clock noted the firing length and the exact time combat took place.
I agree it looks like that, but the complete lack of markings makes it unlikely, to my thinking.
I have seen unmarked gun camera clocks (not by Lemania) but they were unmarked because they had been removed from their cases. This has its case, and the mounting looks like it is intended to sit on a surface, rather than inside a machine.
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To me it just looks like an odd bracket to go to a flat surface. Could it be for something like a motorbike. Is the spacing and hole size correct for sitting on top of a vintage motorbike handlebar clamp ?
Just thinking that’s not likely to be practical given the likely low power reserve.
Last edited by HookedSeven; 26th February 2020 at 20:14.
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