Hamilton Watches - A Century of Cutting Edge Fashion

The Hamilton Watch enterprise was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892. It produced its first watch, designed by H.J. Cain, in 1893. (Now that is a very desirable vintage pocket watch for anything to add to their old pocket watches collection.) Also that year, Hamilton Watch enterprise introduced "The Broadway Limited", a railroad pocket watch known for its reliabiltiy and used extensively by the railroads. It was so good, a version was adoped for the American Expeditionary military worldwide. A wristwatch version inteoduced colse to Wwi where it was used as the timepiece of option for many adventures - including being the first watch to scale Mount Everest, used by Admiral Byrd on his North and South Pole expeditions and by many other illustrious early 20th century adventurers.

In 1928, the Yankees won the World Series and Hamilton Watch illustrious by introducing the Yankee Wrist Watch along with another illustrious watch of that time period, the Piping Rock - both quality, cutting edge timepieces of the day. Growing on this reputation, they captured the hearts of the airlines in the 1930s and became the legal timepiece of Twa, Eastern, United and Northwestern airlines.

Northwestern Airlines

In 1940, Hamilton Watch finished their doors to consumer sales and concentrated exclusively on developing watches for the military. While the Wwii era, close to one million Hamilton military Watches were produced.

In 1957, Hamilton Watch creates one of the most dramatic changes ever to watch originate when it introduced the Hamilton galvanic - the first galvanic watch. This marked the starting of the end for windup watches (although there are still a small amount of high end watches that still require winding.) And in 1959, they deveped the Venture, a sleek watch designed via the inspiration of the Cadillac tailfins of the 1950s. This watch rapidly becomes the in watch for the cool people of the 50s - even being chosen by Elvis Presley as the watch he wore in his movie Blue Hawaii.

Continuing their tradition of innovation, the Pulsar is rolled out in 1972. This is the first of its kind digital watch and was designed and manufactered in its Pennsylvania headquarters. Since that time, Hamilton Watch designs have continued to be cutting edge and very desirable to own and collect.

Hamilton Watches - A Century of Cutting Edge Fashion