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Unusual Agat stopwatch NOS with doc

7234 Views 9 Replies 7 Participants Last post by Andy_I, Feb 1, 2009

Andy_I

Discussion Starter · Jan 24, 2009

Just returned from the post office with new stopwatch.

According to the document the stopwatch was issued on 6th of April, 1973.

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Looks like a classic Agat stopwatch, but the subdial with red lines between 50 and 60 look very unusual. The movement looks standard-type, with normally sized balance wheel (6-seconds version for sonar measurement have a much smaller and faster balance wheel).

Also the yellow coating on the back is unusual. :think:

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TZAG

· #3 · Jan 24, 2009

Anything else on the doc? :think:
1000% NOS |>

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tjvreeken

· #4 · Jan 24, 2009 (Edited)

That is not a common dial, does it has to do something with soccer?

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Mark Gordon

· #5 · Jan 24, 2009

Andy_I said:
Just returned from the post office with new stopwatch. According to the document the stopwatch was issued on 6th of April, 1973.

A very rare dial in mint condition. A great catch. Congratulations, Andy.

Now we must figure out the purpose for this special dial.

-- Mark

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AMHite

· #6 · Jan 25, 2009

Mark Gordon said:
A very rare dial in mint condition. A great catch. Congratulations, Andy.

Now we must figure out the purpose for this special dial.

-- Mark

Do you suppose this could do with diving, meaning the brass helmeted, weighted suit type - not scuba. The last ten minutes of the subdial being in red would to me indicate extreme importance. The stop watch would possibly be used by a crew member, above water of course. Just a thought....

Andrew Hite

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Andy_I

Discussion Starter · #7 · Jan 30, 2009

TZAG said:
Anything else on the doc? :think:

I'll scan it later (guess next week)

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Andy_I

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jan 30, 2009

Mark Gordon said:
Now we must figure out the purpose for this special dial.

I guess the stopwatch was made for soccer field judge.
45 min is play time, 15 min for rest and then another 45 min of play.

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mchap

· #9 · Jan 30, 2009

I have a similar stopwatch. "ADANAC" is the opposite of CANADA, i have found it at a flea-market here in Rome (Italy, of course

). I have no info about this stopwatch. I have read somewhere that it was produced from russian for the Canadian market....
(i am at work now, so i can publish only the pictures that i have already published at www.orolgiando.org. By the way, that day was a day of hunting......

)