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Old 16th Feb 2024, 09:06
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Originally Posted by Cannylad
Nutloose, none of those. A pilot’s watch never had a stop watch facility. It was issued when you joined and replaced if damaged or inaccurate. I had 6/7 in my career and the best and most accurate was the one I handed back on retirement. Surely they give you some sort of timepiece when you retire not take it off you.🤪 Hamilton is a name I remember and one of my watches had a new face stuck on it to hide the date aperture. This cost more as a date function wasn’t in the specification so had to be modified— if you looked carefully by the number 3 you could see the indentation of the hole.
Stop watches were fitted to the aircraft not the pilot.
The replacement Seikos issued to pilots were all stop watches and yes I know the aircraft had them too.

They are marked 6BB on the back of some denoting RAF. Did you have one of these then?.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355076850...XT3QE3XPXCF3J8


Hamilton stopwatch with6BB stamping for RAF

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266080018...Bk9SR5Kh-pW2Yw
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