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Follow up on the Imperial Japanese Navy Interwar Chronograph #278 (Edouard Heuer 102 A)
After some comparative studies with other watch information available on the internet,
we are able to determine that the S.Smith&Son chronograph with the Imperial Japanese Navy
identifier #278 is a Ed. Heuer Ref 102 A.
This watch was most likely procured between 1921-1924. This watch has a serial number in the exact same range and is dedicated in 1924
Note: S.Smith&Son is a known supplier to the British Admiralty and also to the RAF.
This is from Konrad Knirim's books.
At this point, I can only speculate to the use of the watch at that time period. So the Imperial Japanese Navy and the British Royal Flying Corp were heavily involved in an exchange of technology in
order to strengthen Japan's naval aviation capabilities. Since these planes were now capable of longer distances and required navigation over water, it may have been an experiment to see if chronographs
could help either time bombs or help navigation to find the newly developed aircraft carriers. As we know, distance and fuel was very difficult to calculate so the amount to time maybe the only alternative
to determine how much fuel is left.
sky soldier
空兵
Sempill Mission
Thank you again for the welcome atmosphere of this great forum. It is nice to see there is enthusiasm for all types of watches.
Thank you, I don't have luxury watches, so I wonder how I fit in the WatchProSite. I'm more curious about history and watches that are identified with historical events.
I'm happy to hear about peoples reactions to some of my obscure watches.
I'm happy to hear about peoples reactions to some of my obscure watches.
Maybe not luxury but more valuable
for their history and the research, story that you tell us. Thank you.
My daily wearer is a Protek quartz watch.
I believe your watches fit extremely well in a site like this. No need to be luxury to interest people (or at least to interest me :-D )
I have had several watches that have been put into John Goldberger's Longines book and also Zaf Basha's Military watch book. Maybe I'll find someone interested in publishing my Japanese military watches.
Another fantastic post and history lesson.
Much appreciated, I look forward to further posts.
Thank you for your encouragement. I realize watches like these are not for everyone. You can't enjoy them on your wrist and you can't have other people notice them or appreciate them for their prestige or looks and design. There's nothing inheretly valueable about them, they are just reminders of the participants of heroic times.
Very interesting reading about Lord Sempill and the Sempill mission.
Never knew that part of the history between Imperial Japan and Great Britain.
Great sleuthing on the Heuer movement!
Any insights on G W Gladman, and/ or his W.E.C. colleagues from the S&M branch?
Great sleuthing on the Heuer movement!
Any insights on G W Gladman, and/ or his W.E.C. colleagues from the S&M branch?
Britain build Japanese ships and asked to fight Germany.
This maybe an interesting article that shows that the British build many ships for the Imperial Japanese Navy and asked Japan to fight the German Navy
en.wikipedia.org
Imperial_Japanese_Navy#:~:text=Ships%20such%20as%20the%20Fus%C5%8D,also%20emerged%20around%20this%20time.