RARE SMITHS ENGLAND 1971 EMPIRE 1/10^TH STOP WATCH IN ORIGINAL BOX

HERE WE HAVE A RARE VINTAGE 1971 SMITHS ENGLAND STOP WATCH IN VERY GOOD CONDITIUON IN ORIGINAL BOX.
 
THE STOP WATCH WAS MANUFACTURED IN GREAT BRITAIN WITH A MUSTARD COLOURED PLASTIC HOUSING, PLASTIC TRANSPARENT GLASS, AND ALL METAL AND BRASS MECHANICAL PARTS INSIDE.
 
THE STOP WATCH WORKS PERFECTLY. THIS VINTAGE ORIGINAL SMITHS STOP WATCH IS A FANTASTIC PERSONAL ACCESSORY FOR WHEN YOU VISIT HISTORIC CAR EVENTS LIKE RALLIES, OR BEING AN UMPIRE AT YOUR KIDS RACES.

SIZE 6,5CM DIAMETER

CONDITION: IN VERY GOOD CONDITION IN ORIGINAL BOX
 
SMITHS WATCH COMPANY (1851-1980):
The Smiths watch company was founded in 1851 by Samuel Smith - a maker of precision instruments for a number of industrial sectors. Smiths later produced instruments for the expanding aviation and car industries supplying gauges and instruments for cockpits and dashboards. Smiths was probably best known at the onset of the second world war as a clock maker - accounting for 50% of the UK clock market!
Only after the second world war did Smiths begin to manufacture wristwatches supported by British government finance - to fill the gaping absence of a quality watchmaker in the UK. From 1946-1970 Smiths produced a range of high quality watches from its Cheltenham factory including; the De Luxe, Astral and later the Imperial and Everest range of watches. Smiths holds an important part of English horological history as the last English watch company of any size in a world of watches dominated by Swiss, and Japanese manufacturers.
SMITHS BRAND WAS ELEVATED MOST FAMOUSLY AS THE FIRST WATCH UP MOUNT EVEREST (SMITHS CO-SPONSORED THE EVEREST EXPEDITION).
SMITHS WATCHES WERE A BRITISH INSTITUTION FROM 1946 UNTIL 1980. However, in the final five years of production, Smiths had largely stopped making their fine, English made movements in the Cheltenham factory. They seem to vanish with a whimper. Most of the catalogues were lost and most information from those years of production could only be found in the minds of the workers. Innovation moved on. At the time digital watches were in full bloom, and old mechanical Smiths watches lay forgotten in drawers all over the county, gathering dust.
The Smith company diversified and exspanded into aviation and other sectors and is still active and listed on the London stock exchange.

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