When I was 11,  in 1962,  my father had an expensive german camera.  I used
to play with it,  and I  remember that my dad once placed an external self
timer on it, since I asked him what the gizmo was, and he showed me.  I only
know that it was German and expensive, because I asked my mom about it a few
months ago,  and she told me it was an expensive german camera.   So I
deduced that it might have been and M3, since the M3 looks a lot like my
recollection of the camera.

I remember the camera was polished silver looking metal (don't know what
kind of metal), with black leatherette,  the lens was a wide lens (probably
35mm).

However,  as I understand it,  M3s have built in self-timers,  not external
ones,  and so here is the question:

Could the camera my dad had have been an M3,  with the built in self timer
removed,  and he used an external self timer?

I ask this because the pictures I'm looking at of M3s are the closest to my
recollection of the camera my did had, but the conflict is that the M3
pictures show a built in timer, and the one my dad had had an external timer
that he used.

Patrick