Watch Timer highly recommended by Shane Ede...

A watch timer highly recommended by one of my watchmakers... I got a phone call out of the blue from one of my watchmakers today [Shane Ede from Toronto], and he had me navigate to this web page and was telling me that this unit (costing less than $900 USD) is better than the: Witschi Watch Expert II (which runs around $2,775 USD) and may even have more features than the Chronoscope M1 (runs around $10,000), and the Vibragraph Watchmatic II (also $2,775). He has the Witschi and bought Mumford unit when his Vibragraph died and he'd rather depend upon the Mumford unit than any other he hass seen. There are lots of reasons, much of it far too technical for this blog. This unit has many many more features not the least of which is how little it impacts your wallet compared to the competition. "And furthermore, Mr. Bryan Mumford will work as closely as required with any customer, his customer service is second to none!" <-- Direct from Shane. Sounds real good to me. Shane asked me to pass it along for those who sometimes tinker with their own collections. Cheers! -- Chuck [Added 5 May 2008] Just got off the phone with Shane and he informs me that this unit WILL time the latest model Co-Axial movement with the unusual 25,200 BPH rate and it will measure the Co-Axial amplitude as well... He had a latest model Co-Ax in recently and the timer worked like a charm. -- C

Breitling Navitimer Instructions posted:

Bill Sohne purchased a vintage Breitling AOPA Navitimer 806 recently, and fortunately for all of us, it came with an instruction manual for how to use the slide rule. Bill was kind enough to scan in the manual and email them to me for presentation and the utility of "Whiz Wheel" fans everywhere: [click on graphic above to open instruction page in new window.] Thanks Bill for making this possible for the Internet watch collecting community! -- Chuck

Omega Chronograph Dimensions page updated...

Section added to "Omega Chronograph Dimensions" Tables/page... At the behest of Steve Waddington, moderator at Chronocentric's ZOWIE Omega Discussion Forum and all around good guy, I've added a new section on my “Dimensions of Selected Omega Chronographs...” page... Steve mentioned to me that he often used that page as a quick look-up when people were asking about a 145.xxx or a 176.xxx and it'd be really handy to add a reference to the 176.001 card and discussion we had in C/ZOWIE last week. A "scrunched" version of this table looks something like this: Known/Documented Omega Prototypes [NOTE: These were...] Ref.#: Circa Year: Calibre: Description: Notes: 145.0022 c.1968-1973 c.861 Alaska Project/211 Mercury Hands @ Eric So, Lot 211 176.001 1974 c.1040 c.1040 Prototype Thread, Archive, Data Card 176.0017 1974 c.1045 c.1045 Prototype Unreleased model 11 103 c.1978-1986? ¿l.5012? "FIFA Referee" eBay Archive: 1 2 2a 3 Lot 276 Note: Alaska project is assumed to have the same dimensions as a 145.022 save for ... . I'll be contacting the fellow who purchased a FIFA Referee Chronograph last month and asking him for dimensions of his 11 103 FIFA and updating this table as other prototypes become documented. Cheers and Enjoy! -- Chuck