Day: October 5, 2026

It’s an Elgin grade 582 ‘Jitterbug’ timer. Made in 1943, in this case. It’s not really a stopwatch in the standard sense. It runs as long as there’s power in the mainspring. It uses what are essentially chronograph works to connect the hands to the train. It should be running at 30 bps, so that the hand, if it were there, would go around in 10 seconds, and the minute register hand ticks over …