New England Telephone Stopwatch

[Sargeguy]

I know NET&T bought 8-day clocks from Waltham, so I guess that this type was not available.  They are all made by C.L. Guinand in Locle Switzerland.  The NET&T ones are stamped "WE" in ink, so I wonder if they were distributed through Western Electric.  They do not appear in any of the catalogs. Other than these three, the only other telco marked example I've seen is one from the Wisconsin Tel. Co. Traffic Dept.  These are also called "Industrial" timers and appear fairly regularly on eBay without telco markings.   

[Sargeguy]

Here is another example from the Wisconsin Telephone Company:

[Sargeguy]

Another N.E.T.&T. Co. example

[Sargeguy]

Just picked this one up the other day

[RotarDad]

That's a beauty, Greg.  Why the two hands?  Could you track 2 time periods simultaneously?

[Sargeguy]

These were used to calculate traffic volume at a CO.  it was used to measure erlangs.  One hand measured time elapsed and the other measured time that the line was active. 

[19and41]

They certainly had fine instruments when time was truly money.