Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 24, 2008 at 20:14:30 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Captain John's Chronometer and Barometer posted by allym on November 24, 2008 at 16:08:13:
there were pocket watches where you could open the crystal and conceivably lose the seconds hand were there wrist watches where you could open the crystal?
I certainly remember cheap wrist watches where you could prise open the back, and remove the entire mechanism. So the hands were exposed and, if one was loose, you could lose it. That kind of watch was also not at all water proof- in fact, my parents' pre-war watches weren't water proof and I suspect that many watches at the time were not. So another reason for John to keep his watch in the tent, not on his wrist.