Hi guys,
I was sent this picture last night via my mobile phone, so please excuse the quality! It’s obviously an aircraft instrument of some description, however after checking my own sources I can’t seem to find exactly what. All I know is that it’s American.
Any help on identifying what this is, and what it’s come from would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
By: bri - 26th August 2006 at 11:50
Expensive items, those J le C clocks. In our RAAF Canberras, I had the job of replacing normal securing screws with ‘break-off’ head screws: this to prevent them being half-inched.
Apparently they were popular for time-of-trip measurements in long journeys by car…
Bloody awful job removing the screws later when the clock had to be removed by yours truly, an instrument basher!
Bri
By: planejunky - 27th July 2006 at 15:24
Wanna sell it ? :diablo:
Not mine to sell mate! Tho I can find out who is selling it and send you a PM.
By: Dave T - 27th July 2006 at 14:03
Wanna sell it ? :diablo:
By: Eddie - 27th July 2006 at 14:02
I think I’ve seen those fitted in US Navy aircraft.
By: planejunky - 27th July 2006 at 12:27
That’s great thanks guys. I thought it looked like a clock but wasn’t sure because of the odd number arrangement. Any ideas what types this would have been fitted to? Looked at the Mustang and Thunderbolt and couldn’t see one fitted, so I guess it would be larger types?
By: Whitley_Project - 27th July 2006 at 12:03
Ah… the genius of Distiller… 🙂
Jaeger Le Coultre “Chronoflight”, 1942/43 I assume.
By: Distiller - 27th July 2006 at 11:53
Jaeger Le Coultre “Chronoflight”, 1942/43 I assume.
By: 682al - 27th July 2006 at 11:45
It looks like a Jaeger LeCoultre 8 day clock with 24 hour dial.
It may be USN or USAAF and should say so somewhere on it.
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