Anyone Own A 24hr Watch Here?

[TARDIS]

Hi Guys, I saw this while trawling the net and wondered if anyone here owns a 24 hour dial watch?



This one is Swiss, but I never heard of the name before now. Does this watch have a 24hr movement or is a double 24hr bezel and the hands go round in 12???

Last time I saw a true analogue 24hr movement was 35 years ago in an ATC tower on a GMT clock!

Does anyone know of a true 24hr movement wrist watch?

[JJ Irani]

Glycine is quite a well known and popular brand, Steve. That watch above looks like one with the GMT feature, the very small hand representing the 24-hour hand (same as the RED hand on a Rolex GMT)!!

The 24 numbers on the outer perimeter is probably to be able to read off the time in "Military" hours....like 1300, 1400, etc.

JJ

[TARDIS]

Hi JJ - it has a second and a minute hand OK. The hand you call a 24hr GMT hand; is that not the 12 hr hand?
You will notice that it also has 12hr lume markers. I am now inclined to think it isn't a 24 hr movement just a watch with two 24hr bezels. The outer one being movable for a second time zone.
Steve

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by TARDIS

Hi JJ - it has a second and a minute hand OK. The hand you call a 24hr GMT hand; is that not the 12 hr hand?
You will notice that it also has 12hr lume markers. I am now inclined to think it isn't a 24 hr movement just a watch with two 24hr bezels. The outer one being movable for a second time zone.
Steve

Hmmmm....so what you're saying is that it has the usual 3 hands - hour, minute and second; but that very tiny hand pointing towards 10 o'clock, is that a 12-hour hand? Hmmmm....this is an old model and perhaps you could be right. Double bezels...one fixed, on rotatable...not a bad concept for those days!!

[TARDIS]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

but that very tiny hand pointing towards 10 o'clock, is that a 12-hour hand? Hmmmm....this is an old model and perhaps you could be right. Double bezels...one fixed, on rotatable...not a bad concept for those days!!

JJ I thought that was the arse end of the triangular hand?
If it is a another functional hand like you say, then why isn't it luminous?

Like I said before, it's a bit confusing!

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by TARDIS

JJ I thought that was the arse end of the triangular hand?
If it is a another functional hand like you say, then why isn't it luminous?

Like I said before, it's a bit confusing!

LOL! No, no, I don't think that's the continuation of the small hour hand...they wouldn't make the hour hand with such a long tail.

Steve, you must realise that this is very old watch, so perhaps they didn't consider luminosity as being an important part in the 12-hour (?) hand. That tiny hand is definitely the FOURTH hand on this watch. How it functions....well, perhaps we might have to wait for one of the experts to tell us....Padi would know...he's pretty good with vintage models.

[Rockrolex]

I'm pretty sure JJ's right, Steve. The two lumious hands and the luminous dot second hand are for 12 hour time. The shorter pointed non-luminous hand is the 24 hour hand. And my guess would be that the second stem is to set the 24 hour time.

[padi56]

The crown at four o clock locks the bezel in place. The crown at 3 sets the time.The hour hand on this watch makes one revolution per day. Military time, so to speak. The GMT hand is exactly opposite/12hrs and the bezel can be set to it for your second time zone. A unique hack setting feature is a hole in the dial, right between the 2 and the 4 of 24 where a thin wire emerges when the crown is pulled out,if you look you can see the very small hole. This stops the second hand exactly at twelve for precise setting.Think the airman started life in the mid 50s early watches had a, A. Schild based calibre 1903,later the ETA 2893.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by padi56

The crown at four o clock locks the bezel in place. The crown at 3 sets the time.The hour hand on this watch makes one revolution per day. Military time, so to speak. The GMT hand is exactly opposite/12hrs and the bezel can be set to it for your second time zone. A unique hack setting feature is a hole in the dial, right between the 2 and the 4 of 24 where a thin wire emerges when the crown is pulled out,if you look you can see the very small hole. This stops the second hand exactly at twelve for precise setting.Think the airman started life in the mid 50s early watches had a, A. Schild based calibre 1903,later the ETA 2893.

Bloody brilliant!!

[TARDIS]

Originally Posted by padi56

The crown at four o clock locks the bezel in place. The crown at 3 sets the time.The hour hand on this watch makes one revolution per day. Military time, so to speak. The GMT hand is exactly opposite/12hrs and the bezel can be set to it for your second time zone. A unique hack setting feature is a hole in the dial, right between the 2 and the 4 of 24 where a thin wire emerges when the crown is pulled out,if you look you can see the very small hole. This stops the second hand exactly at twelve for precise setting.Think the airman started life in the mid 50s early watches had a, A. Schild based calibre 1903,later the ETA 2893.

for the explanation. U2 JJ

Hey does Breitling make a 24hr watch? woo hooo!

[C.J.]

Originally Posted by padi56

The crown at four o clock locks the bezel in place. The crown at 3 sets the time.The hour hand on this watch makes one revolution per day. Military time, so to speak. The GMT hand is exactly opposite/12hrs and the bezel can be set to it for your second time zone. A unique hack setting feature is a hole in the dial, right between the 2 and the 4 of 24 where a thin wire emerges when the crown is pulled out,if you look you can see the very small hole. This stops the second hand exactly at twelve for precise setting.Think the airman started life in the mid 50s early watches had a, A. Schild based calibre 1903,later the ETA 2893.

You da man, Peter