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MonKee2019-04-23T16:04:02-00:00Re: Goal ?
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my goal is to have them all
I know that this is unreachable und unrealistic, but this leaves me in the accumulating stage for some time. So I really have a goal, knowing that it cannot be reached I should better call it a vision. Having realized that my goal is only a vision I have to change my goal in about 8 years from now. Then the accumulation phase will definitely be over and I will start to intensively work on the watches which I now do only sporadically. The next in between goal is an exhibition of my watches in a local museum in about two years from now.
Barney]]>Barney Green2019-04-23T16:35:03-00:00Re: Goal ?
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afire2019-04-24T03:00:02-00:00Re: Goal ?
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I've been a bad boy lately and this followed me home last week.
Back in the day I had to stand lookout duty aboard a destroyer I was stationed. On the bridge I'd would always sneak a peek into the quartermaster's shack and look at a beautiful Hamilton 22 chronometer they used to keep time throughout the ship. The analogue Navy...Anyway this one is a 1918 Waltham that served 2 world wars. ]]>Gary2019-04-24T04:03:26-00:00Re: Goal ?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison]]>afire2019-04-24T17:33:05-00:00Re: Goal ?
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timeliz2019-04-24T20:44:14-00:00Re: Goal ?
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You can take a peek down memory lane at this Hamilton 21 here : https:// atgvintagewatches.com/military-watches-forum-nsn-6645-a/7372 -incoming-hamilton-model-21-ships-chronometer.html
Darn! Now I want one. ]]>timeliz2019-04-25T23:15:20-00:00Re: Goal ?
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afire wrote on Wed, 24 April 2019 17:33
John yes what a good read that is. I was a radar man aboard a Vietnam era class destroyer in San Diego in the big hair days. I didn't make much and could not afford an apartment. My home was aboard ship in and out to sea. Us radar guys also did chart navigation along with the quartermasters who also did navigation. This was a check against each other to give the captain a good sense of where we were in relation to PIM, point of intended movement on the chart and how far we were off track. We had an early version of GPS but it was always way off and could not be trusted for an accurate fixes. We mainly relied on precision time, latitude, radar and visual fixes with land and stars, also dead reckoning with a plotter tied into the ships gyrocompass. We still carried sextons to take star fixes at night.
Goes to show how Harrisons inventions were and are still used today. I'm almost certain ship still have clocks, quartz I presume and probably use it as a backup to GPS as GPS has gotten more accurate.]]>Gary2019-04-26T21:47:02-00:00Re: Goal ?
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timeliz wrote on Thu, 25 April 2019 23:15
Liz that clock is the same one we had on our ship, beautiful! I can still recall the quartermaster setting our Chelsea clocks to the time he obtained from the Hamilton chronometer using his Hamilton deck pocket watch to transfer the correct time to all the clocks throughout the ship.
We have a Navy doctor in our clock organization who served in Korea era that works and collects these Hamilton chronometers. He put one up for auction last year and it went for $1,000. Now I'm thinking that was a steal. I'm sure he will put another one up for auction this year, I ask him if he intends to.
There is a lot of information on the Waltham that I'm seeing now. These clocks were the first mounted chronometers purchased by the Naval Observatory. These were standard 8 day 7 jewel car clock movements but were made to the observatory's standards like having an upper diamond cap jewel, gold balance, double roller escapement and sapphire roller jewel.
Here another picture of the clock showing it's double box, also a 1917 ad from Life magazine I believe.
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I have to apologize to you personally for going off topic here. I guess this where our goals turn into new discoveries.