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Anyone see one of these before and what is it used for?

Was it a converted CDIA to a Rally timer?

 
Posts: 74 | Location: Redondo Beach, California USA | Registered: July 12, 2006
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The dial markings are 24 hours, 60 minutes and 100 Centi-minutes (0.01 minutes) probably intended for navigation and fuel burn calculations.
 
Posts: 6492 | Location: Southern California in the USA | Registered: July 19, 2007
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It is a CDIA case, and your guess that it might have been a later conversion by the BBS company of Germany to a auto rally timer clock makes sense to me. There is a BBS company in Germany that makes after sale auto parts - I don't know if it the same BBS as the sticker on the back of this clock though. It would have been a lower cost option than using the British aircraft chronos that were commonly recycled by auto rally participants after the war.
 
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