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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Vwdoyle on September 15, 2015, 11:02:53 pm
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Hello Everyone! I picked up this Hamilton watch housing assembly and I can't seem to find any info on it. I was thinking military because of Hamilton's history in producing military watches and the heavy duty steel case it's in but a frien of mine said no. Any help would be great. Thank you!
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Can you please list the dimensions of the whole piece and then of the watch face? Thanks!
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Hi
Well EG&G were a WWII contractor and also involved with the Manhattan Project and nuclear tests.
Fortunately this is well labelled - has all the part and serial numbers - so i would contact Hamilton themselves. They should have records which tell you exactly where this was used.
Looks like it attached to something portable. I don't see the military arrow so maybe it was more 1950s than 1940s ?
Someone over at nawcc.org will probably recognise that 39360 prefix.
* edit - Ha !!! After a quicky google it seems to be quite rare indeed ! Read this thread :
http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.php?91857-I-have-never-seen-a-military-timepiece-like-this-Hamilton!
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It is 3 1/2" x 1 3:4" with a 1" face. Great feed Ipcress. It looks like no one knows for sure yet. I wasn't able to connect to any of the links in the feed.
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If you read the discussion in the link, they think it's a periscope timer, like the one seen here
http://s17.photobucket.com/user/milorgman/media/Time/HamiltonModel23advertpage.jpg.html (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/milorgman/media/Time/HamiltonModel23advertpage.jpg.html)