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    Re: Using analog stopwatches to time your sights,anyone else?
    From: John Pazereskis
    Date: 2022 Aug 25, 18:34 -0700

    Hello again, Joe, In my last reply, I neglected to address your question about Beebe's Heur being a traditional pocket watch type.  It only had the stem sticking up at 12 o'clock.  His Heur rally watch wasn't a stop watch; it had no stop button.  Instead,  it was a  24 hr dial, seconds setting watch, which, he set to his chronometer or, more likely, a radio time tick.  I personally like 24 hr second setting watches...Hamilton and Longines GCT watches being my own favorites.

    Going back to your last comment/question, holding a watch in your left hand would, in addition to making a drop lickely, make it almost impossible (for me at least) to manipulate the index arm/micrometer drum...or am I missing something.

    Cheers,

    John

       
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