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I think it is rather fascinating so I have transcribed it in full. It reports a waterproof wrist watch created at the request of two British submarine commanders.

In December 1917 at the height of the Great War (World War 1, WW1) the following brief article appeared in the British Horological Institute's 'Horological Journal'. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to to get in touch via my Contact Me page. Please note that at the time of writing the article I didn't know about the connection with Brook and Son of Edinburgh who evidently commissioned the watches from the Swiss watchmakers Tavannes.

Articles in the Watch & Clock Bulletin are NAWCC copyright and usually only members can see them, either in the physical Bulletin or on the NAWCC web site, but the editor of the NAWCC Bulletin has made this article publicly available and it can now be read or downloaded by clicking on this this link: DOWNLOAD. The section reproduced here is from my page about The evolution of the waterproof watch.Ī longer version of this article was published in the NAWCC Watch & Clock Bulletin in 2014. Here below you will find part of one of the pages that I have recently either changed or added to significantly. I make additions and corrections to this web site frequently, but because they are buried somewhere on one of the pages the changes are not very noticeable, so I decided to create this blog section to highlight new material. 189190 Clamshell Waterproof WatchĬlick this link to DOWNLOAD the article in full!ĭ9894 Blog: The Submarine Commanders' Watchĭate: 22 October 2015 Copyright © David Boettcher 2006 - 2022 all rights reserved.

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