The quick release plastic buckle is easy and quick to connect and can be located out of the way so you aren't sitting on it. It's such a nice fit you could use it while walking, jogging, riding a bicycle, or driving your Hummer over the sand dunes. The mainstay of the Nye line, they describe this as the perfect key. It comes complete with cord and plug. Isolated contact assembly separates keying circuit from hardware.
Contacts are gold-plated silver, and the key arm is adjustable.
Navy knob is standard, as is heavy die-cast base. Take a look at Model 322. First made by Les Logan, then by E.F. Johnson, and now by Wm M. Nye Company, the zinc bases of the Speed-X keys have been cast in the the same molds since the 1930's. When you purchase a Speed-X key you are not just buying a key, you are buying a piece of telegraph history. Nye has been making keys and paddles for a long time, and the tradition of quality and value is strong in every product that carries the Wm.