A 360,000 b/h 1/100th second stopwatch

[soviet]

This high quality stopwatch was made in late 1970's for military use. I found the image from a Chinese watch site. It is said less than 500 such watches were made. I thought the 360,000 beats was wrong , but the owner said it was 10 times faster than a normal stopwatch. :-!

China also made some high quality watches for Navy use, but there is no images of the two watches for the Navy.

[Chascomm]

This high quality stopwatch was made in late 1970's for military use. I found the image from a Chinese watch site. It is said less than 500 such watches were made. I thought the 360,000 beats was wrong , but the owner said it was 10 times faster than a normal stopwatch. :-!

China also made some high quality watches for Navy use, but there is no images of the two watches for the Navy.:-S I thought Heuer had only just last year made the world's first 360,000bph stop-watch.

[soviet]

:-S I thought Heuer had only just last year made the world's first 360,000bph stop-watch.

I have no idea, but he said only a couple of Swiss companies could make such a watch. He said the hair spring is as thick as a lady watch's main spring! I don't know how to translate the names of the other two high quality watches for Navy use. One of them could be a "deck watch"?

[Watch Carefully]

:-S I thought Heuer had only just last year made the world's first 360,000bph stop-watch.

According to the book "Mastering Time' (a Heuer history of sorts), the company created a prototype 1/100-sec. timer during the second decade of the 20th century. Mr. Heuer and his team decided that this was too fast for the general public and so they marketed a 1/50-sec. version shortly thereafter. (Seems odd for use in a base-ten society.)

Though mechanical 1/100-sec timers have been around for ages, Heuer's introduction last year was the first wristwatch with a 1/100-sec timer integrated.

I once bought a 1/100-sec timer without realizing it. It came with a few others I bought on eBay back around 1998. It was so fast I thought the thing had problems--I had no idea the seconds hand was intended to go once around the dial in only three seconds. The dial on that one was hard to read.

Lemania (via Meylan Stop Watch Corp.) also marketed 1/100ths timers a handful of decades ago.

I bet this Chinese model is something very interesting. I'd love to see one. I have a thing for timers--I used to own about 2 dozen various mechanical split-seconds models.
Cheers,
Brad
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[Chascomm]

Thanks for the clarification on the Heuer question. I remember now that the watch they made last year had a separate escapement (and mainspring?) for the timer. So technically it is a watch and stopwatch in the same case, rather than a chronograph movement. If I understand correctly then, by Swiss definition, this doesn't actually qualify as a 'complication'!

Good luck in your search for the ultimate stopwatch :-! 360000bph ... the sound that thing must make. My head spins just thinking about it.

[soviet]

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I once bought a 1/100-sec timer without realizing it. It came with a few others I bought on eBay back around 1998. It was so fast I thought the thing had problems--I had no idea the seconds hand was intended to go once around the dial in only three seconds. The dial on that one was hard to read.

www.watchcarefully.com (http://www.watchcarefully.com)

The Chinese watch also take 3 seconds to run a circle. I am still waiting for the image of the movement.