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This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934. One maintained Greenwich Civil Time (later Greenwich Mean Time). The other kept Local Civil Time.

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This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934.
Type: Artifact
Image Date: 2012
Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Origin: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Creator: Eric Long
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This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934.

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This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934.