A Victorian British military split-seconds chronograph timer by Craighead & Webb, of Royal Exchange, London, having a silver face with 60-second chapter in hundredths of a second, with blued steel twin seconds hands and spade fixed point hand, the latter set by means of a radial knurled turned brass knob, the timer activated by means of a lever and only running while the latter is held depressed, the split seconds hand stopped and reset coincident with the primary seconds hand by means of a radial swith, in a black lacquered and anodised brass drum case with suspension ring, the case back having a shuttered winding apperture and bearing an engraved War Department ownership mark, 12 cm exclding stem and bow, in a fabric-lined oak transit case, (fully funcional, free of material defects). [Craighead & Webb, London. 1836-63. These timers are believed to have had a Royal Navy or Army artillery, torpedo and mine applications. See Knirim, "British Military Timepieces", p 160]