Originally posted by alex_96GL:
amateures, sit down before you hurt yourself...
It would appear that you've given this warning too late. There've been several casualties in this thread already.
Originally posted by alex_96GL:
top dial: "time of flight" -- it just measures hours.
Actually, it measures hours and minutes. There are two hands on that dial, just as on a regular clock dial without a second hand. The hour hand doesn't show very well in this picture, because it is hiding behind the minute hand.
Originally posted by alex_96GL:
bottom dial is seconds.
It measures minutes. The single hand on that dial takes a minute to go from one tick mark to the next, and 30 minutes to go around the dial.
Originally posted by alex_96GL:
the rest is a regular clock. the gray print in the middle of the main dial says 2 - days
I'd assume that this is a reference to how long it can run between winding. I seem to remember, from back in the stone-age days, of hearing about ??n-Day watches?, where n is how many days it can run without needing to be wound again.
BTW, your translations square quite well with what a friend of mine came up with by groping rather blindly through a Russian/English dictionary. It's all fairly consistent, and makes sense with regard to what I have observed of this clock's behavior, except for the ??Second (CEK)? hand counting off minutes. My friend found CEK to translate either to ??second? or ??stopwatch?.
What about the word on the knob to the right? My friend found a definition that has to do with setting something in motion, which is, again, consistent with the observed behavior of the clock.
I wonder how old this thing is? I'd imagine that even in the Soviet Union, for purposes such as that for which this clock is intended, that mechanical clocks would have long ago given way to more accurate and reliable electronic clocks.
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