Increments and the small hand measures minutes up to. This is a minute timer with a 30 minute register. It's not really a stopwatch in the standard sense.
Does anyone have an instruction manual or original box for such a watch? On the case and movement. Stop watches stop and start the train and escapement, whereas the elgin timer's train and escapement run.
The way the dial is marked it for timing a 5 mile run at between 120 and 500 miles an hour ?? You have a waltham model 11609 , type a, no. It runs as long as there's power in the mainspring. I don't have this specific model to compare but have a similar 10 second model with a 6 minute register with the mini balance.
Recently acquired an elgin stopwatch i have never seen before. Under the serial number database its described as a military. The large hand measures seconds in 1/5 sec. Made in 1943, in this case.
It was wound “tight” and did not. I just acquired another meylan stopwatch at a small antique mall in ferdinand, in for five bucks, just seemed like to good of a deal to pass up.