Smiths Timepieces - clock and stopwatch

[Gumball]

I made a bracket today for the pair of Smiths watches that I bought from a guy in England a while back. Just a piece of 1/8" aluminum scrap with the two clips that came with the watches. I'm going to have it powdercoated with something called "black sand" for a nice textured finish, then I have to figure out where it's going to be mounted. Most likely, it'll end up between the lower dash support tubes on the forward part of the trans tunnel.

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab15/CCRsAC/1clocks_zps4b81e7df.jpg (http://s845.photobucket.com/user/CCRsAC/media/1clocks_zps4b81e7df.jpg.html)

[JL1958]

Very cool!

[skullandbones]

Hey Chris,

I know you're a big history buff on this era. Are you mounting the watches as a tool for track times and things like that since those were used a lot for racing? I don't remember ever seeing any thing like that on board the cars. Just curious. Thanks, WEK

[Gumball]

Hey Chris,

I know you're a big history buff on this era. Are you mounting the watches as a tool for track times and things like that since those were used a lot for racing? I don't remember ever seeing any thing like that on board the cars. Just curious. Thanks, WEK

Sort of a rally thing, but trackdays are a distinct possibility. I saw this original 289 car at Road America in the summer of 2012 and liked the look, but didn't want to drop nearly a grand on a fancy stopwatch. One of the guys over on ffcars turned me onto the fact that Smiths made timepieces "back in the day" and I thought they'd make a nice addition to my car since I'm using Smiths gauges. I was going to do just a stopwatch, but thought it'd look cool and give me a reason to actually have a clock in the car if I also bought a similar pocke****ch.

Here's the inspiration:

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab15/CCRsAC/GloveboxDashandTransTunnel.jpg (http://s845.photobucket.com/user/CCRsAC/media/GloveboxDashandTransTunnel.jpg.html)

[skullandbones]

Yeah, that is inspirational! That's a pretty fancy stop watch don't you think? I like seeing the vintage pics to check out all the components. It seems like they vary from car to car. I don't think there was a standard layout or maybe those were likes of the particular customer or race driver. Pretty cool!!!!

Thanks,

WEK.

[Gumball]

I can't believe what the filter blanked out on my reply in post #4 - should have read "pocket watch" I guess it didn't like the last letter of "pocket" and the first three of "watch" when they were together in one word. Go figure....