Timing up to 100th of a second, this Western German made Hanhart captures not only precise timing today, but the precise timing in which it was manufactured.

These days, to say something is German made is easy enough because the part of Germany in which it was made is largely inconsequential. In the era that this stop watch was made, to say it was made in west Germany was a political statement.

Following the division of Germany after the Second World War there was a rapid capitalisation of the skilled, but at the time economically depressed workforce that lead to a post war economic boom as Western Germany would quickly establish itself as a major world economy.

This stopwatch which dates to the 1980’s captures well the manufacturing and technical output of west Germany before reunification and proudly labels itself so.

The watch times well, as to be expected and is cased in a plastic case with original lanyard attached.