Reply With QuoteFantastic.
Can’t think of a better desk clock to have
Bought this in a regional auction back in Feb. I was pretty sure it was the upgrade unit from later Vulcans although the auctioneers didn’t know. £130. Some research and I was, pleasingly, right. Just back from repair (J.E. Allnutt in Midhurst) and running beautifully on the desk-top.
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Fantastic.
Can’t think of a better desk clock to have
Beautiful, thanks for sharing. One picture of the back please!
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Love it!
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Very nice, this is my desk clock.
That is very cool.
Proper cool
Terrific! My two…
What a terrific thing - I am most envious!
Beautiful and great history.
Love the others too
Lovely clocks. Just picked this up this week Another for the desk.
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Hi
How is this run? Is it mains or battery?
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It's a wind upOriginally Posted by DeepThought
8 day movement
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
They are really rather radioactive, so I'm not sure that the desk is the best place. However, as they were the clock fitted to the majority of single engined day fighters during the battle of Britain, for example, P9374:
who could resist?
However, for the role it was massively too good (and expensive) and so it was initially replaced by the smaller smiths clock and then, by '42 by a blanking plate with clocks only fitted for specialist uses, for example high altitude use.
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Lots of good information. Thanks for pic M4tt. Had been looking for similar, but obviously in the wrong planes. Mine has a 1954 date on the back so hoping they changed Lume and
I’ll live a bit longer. JLC movement. Apologies for slightly unclear pic. SER.No. 4409/54
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Last edited by EBB21; 14th November 2022 at 18:28.
I honestly don't know about the Lume - 1954 is very much on the cusp. However, the movement is a bit more complicated. It was made in Cricklewood, by Smiths, and by 1954 wouldn't even have beenm called Ed.Jaeger, just Smiths. The design was a slightly simplified Jaeger Chronoflight. The Chronoflight was fitted to the first few dozen Spitfires. However, in the atmosphere of protectionism in the thirties LeCoultre opened factories in Russia, which was promptly nicked and carried on making chronoflight variants until the 1990s. America, which carried on under license, and the UK which was promptly bought out by Smiths after they did a number on LeCoultre and Jaeger.Lots of good information. Thanks for pic M4tt. Had been looking for similar, but obviously in the wrong planes. Mine has a 1954 date on the back so hoping they changed Lume and
I’ll live a bit longer. JLC movement. Apologies for slightly unclear pic. SER.No. 4409/54
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I wrote a bit about it here:
https://www.intlwatchleague.com/show...eger-leCoultre
But there are several folk here who know more about this than I do by several orders of magnitude. Evening RevO.
The radiation through glass is less of an issue. The radon gas is, so somewhere well ventilated with an escape route for a gas that is heavier than air.
Last edited by M4tt; 14th November 2022 at 19:41.
Had to have another look - The NERO Lemania is so wonderfully plain and functional.
Beautiful
https://vintagewatchspecialist.com/p...itary-markings
mine!
I have this pair
The plain one on the right is from a VC10, its decommissioning papers are behind the two of them.
They make a nice pair to have the plain time only version, and the chronograph (A-13A) one as well.
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ps - OP, I do not think yours is a chronometer, but it is a chronograph
Neither. It’s a manual wind which runs for 8 days.
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