Mk 11 for switch free#
The EU: FREE DHL Express shipping, 1-3 working days United States & Canada: FREE Fedex shipping, 1-3 working days UK: FREE next working day delivery with DPD If you are in a hurry for your watch, please email us. Please allow extra processing time for watches with a customised engraving or strap, during busy sales periods this can take an extra 5-10 working days. When your order is dispatched you will be emailed the tracking details. Where this isn't possible, we will try to inform you via email. We aim to dispatch all orders placed before 12pm (GMT), on the same day working day. To my mind they are the very essence of horological understatement. One of the things that makes the Mk 11 so special is the combination of exacting, chronometer-grade performance and a pure, minimal design of the visible parts of the watch. The watch comes with our standard 12 month guarantee. The crystal has been replaced and the watch has been fitted with a vintage one-piece leather strap which complements the watch wonderfully. The case has been cleaned, but as with all out vintage watches we have left it unpolished, so do be aware that the case bears the usual marks of wear. The movement has been fully serviced and the timekeeping is excellent, the watch has a hacking function - that is the seconds are stopped while the time is being set, so it can be set to the exact second. How this particular watch escaped this fate is a source of wonder - there are believed to be only a handful in this original state. At the next service interval therefore the dials were replaced on all the watches.
Mk 11 for switch mod#
In 1952 the MOD revised the specification for the dial in response to concerns about legibility.
changing the specification for the sealing gasket on the caseback), while others were more major - such as a change of dial and hands. Over the service lifetime of the Mk 11 watches, the Ministry of Defence made a number of revisions to the design, some of these were minor (e.g. This watch is a particularly rare example because it retains the original dial, the so-called “white 12”. There is an excellent article about the Mark 11 watches which gives fascinating context and insight into them here No other military watch was ever subjected to such a rigorous testing and maintenance schedule. The watches were subject to an exacting maintenance schedule, indeed initially they were returned to the manufacturer annually for service and for testing to to ensure they conformed to the original time keeping specification. The Mk 11 watches were considered such valuable military property that the case and dial and even the movement itself was marked with the military pheon. The watch was designed to withstand the harsh environment of a military airplane - it was constructed in such a way as to shield the mechanism from the strong magnetic fields which were present: the dial is made of iron and considerably thicker than that found on a regular watch, an iron dust cover wraps around the back of the movement and joins with the dial to completely enclose the movement and so prevent the influence of magnetism on the time keeping. The Mark 11 is probably the most iconic British Military watch there is, it was produced in relatively small numbers and only ever supplied by two firms: International Watch Company and Jaeger Le-Coultre.
This method was in principal the same as that used by sailors to calculate their position ever since the development of the marine chronometer by John Harrison in the mid eighteenth century. This watch was used by the navigator in an RAF plane in conjunction with a bubble-sextant to calculate the exact latitude and longitude of the aircraft. 11 is a highly accurate time piece suitable for astro-navigation purposes”. This is a rare and desirable International Watch Company Mark 11 navigator’s wrist watch, to quote the original Ministry of Defence specification, “The wrist watch Mk.
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