Feb
14
Very Rare Navy WWII Clock
Seldom seen WW2 ships clock developed in 1941 and made in the USA for the US Navy by the Seth Thomas Clock Co. Called a Course Clock, it was designed to enable Allied ships to set a zig zag course at varying timed intervals that could increase their likelihood of avoiding torpedoes from enemy submarines and airplanes. There were two models of Mark 2 course clocks made, the Model 0 and the Model 1. This example is a Mark 2 Model 1 bearing serial number 21500. One online resource estimates that only about. 1500 of these were made before a revised sinuous course technology was introduced in the Mark 3 […]
