hamilton an5740 pocket watch serial number af-44-2003

HAMILTON AN5740 POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER AF 44 2003 FULL

This is the ordnance maintenance guide for wrist watches, pocket watches, stop watches and clocks, from 6 April 1945. As mentioned, Elgin, Waltham and Bulova made various incarnations of this classic watch, but the 'official' version is the Elgin, as documented in TM 9-1575 from the War Department. There were at least three A-11 versions made. Any white-dialed watch would be issued prior to the A-11 specification, most likely in 1941.

While previous to the A-11 designation some issued watches were made with white dials, this changed after 1942 to the black dial version that is better known. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics specified lumed dial and hands for their version of the A-11 the watches were marked FSSC 88-W-800 The USAAFs version was marked with the U.S.

Lumed versions of the A-11 were produced as well, as were occasional white-dialed versions. Hamilton, then the leading US watch maker, made a similar type of watch which was not subsumed under the A-11 designation, though the watches were very similar. Even the basic accuracy requirement for the A-11 (30 seconds per day at room temperature) is still the same for todays American mechanical military watches!Įlgin, Waltham and Bulova all made the A-11 from 1941 on.

HAMILTON AN5740 POCKET WATCH SERIAL NUMBER AF 44 2003 FULL

the full 1-12 numerals, and the preference for the same type of minute and hour hands. There are several design elements of the A-11 which are still present in today's US military issued watches, viz. Some were dustproof, others were waterproof. Several A-11 versions featured a characteristic coin-edge bezel and caseback. The A-11 was not so much a specific watch model but a production standard used by a number of watch companies (Elgin, Bulova, and Waltham), with numerous case and minor dial/hands variations (there were even silver-cased watches, as nickel was considered a metal more critical for the war effort!), though some design aspects were largely universal: Black dial white hands a handwound hacking movement with center second hand, hour numbers from 1 to 12 a second scale with smaller minute/second numbers in increments of 10 on the outside edge of the dial and same-type minute and hour hands. The A-11 was superseded at some time - usually the Korean War is given as a time reference - by the all-lumed A-17.

The A-11 was there when Germany was bombed and the World War II in Europe was turned around, when the war in the Pacific ended in the first - and so far only - nuclear explosions in anger occurred, and when the monumental effort of the Berlin Airlift turned erstwhile foes into friends and allies, and handed the Soviets the first resounding defeat of the incipient Cold War which their political system, and their empire, would not survive. This is the watch that kept the United States Army Air Forces as well as the Navy and Marine Corps flying, and - to a lesser extent - the RAF (under the 6B/234 designation), the RCAF and even the Soviet Air Force. But it was a comparatively small, unobtrusive, mass-produced American watch, the so-called 'A-11', which has a claim to fame of having made a crucial contribution to the Allied victory in that war. When World War Two-era watches are mentioned, many people think immediately of high-quality German-made B-Uhren and chronographs. The band is a correct high quality web reproduction. Bulova model 10AKCSH hand-winding and hacking movement. The watch was manufactured in 1944 for Pilots and Navigators in the US Army Air Force (USAAF). This example has been fully cleaned, tested and runs perfectly.

This is a very nice genuine WW2 issue 1944 dated Bulova A-11 military watch.

Hamilton an5740 pocket watch serial number af-44-2003