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Old 6th Dec 2019, 22:34
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Originally Posted by Fourteenbore
The 0 to 360 must have been on for a particular use.
Yes, on some watches (not stop watches to my limited knowledge) that outer scale is a tachymeter which allows the determination of a groundspeed by timing how long it takes to cover a mile.

The 360 on that stop watch is a bit beyond me unless it's a tachymeter using some other set of distance measurements. Someone will undoubtedly have an answer here. I can't noodle out how it could be related to 360 degrees of a compass rose.

https://www.govbergwatches.com/blog/...-a-tachymeter/
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