Not everyday you see a Honeywell S46XA series Pull Station with a Watchman’s Key. In fact, it’s not everyday you see with a Pull Station with a Watchman’s Key in general.
Huge thanks to Pilot for this very rare (And very cool) device!
Does it actually say watchman? It looks like this is labeled as Presignal/general alarm which is more typical for them. I think the more interesting thing here is the type of keyswitch that was used. the ones I have all use arrowhart switches, this uses a barrel key
Watchman switches usually weren’t keylocks, fwiw, and not many companies did dual coded/multicoded systems other than autocall
It doesn’t say what the Key is for.
That’s not a watchmans key pull station, that’s an AC powered dual stage S464 pull, and it appears to have been made in '85. This pull was maybe intended to be used on a dual stage AC fire system. Do you have the tubular key which that operates the key switch?
it actually does indicate that it’s intended for presignal/general alarm setups:
in this type of setup:
keyswitch = general alarm
regular switch = pre-signal
so, while it’s not explicitly saying that the keyswitch is for general alarm, by calling out that the main switch is pre-signal, it generally would mean that the keyswitch is then for GA.
I don’t unfortunately.
By any chance is this still a Rare Pull Station?
Yes! That pull station is still very rare despite its lack of watchman’s switch
Oh Cool! Even I don’t have a Watchman’s Station at least I have something rare!
Yeah that pull is probably the rarest thing in your collection