February 2013

In the 1937 Hamilton Catalog, these watches were grouped together.The gold filled models came with a 17 Jewel 980 movement and the solid gold models came with the 982 movement. These were popular selling watches at a time when the US just started to come out of the Great Depression. Boone 14K gold-filled, natural gold […]

The Hamilton Ellsworth and Prescott both appeared in the 1935-1936 catalog. These were limited production watches. For example, Hamilton only produced 2500 Ellsworth units Ellsworth The Ellsworth came in a 10K gold filled case, had a 28mm diameter excluding the crown and was 43mm over the lug tips. It used a 17-jewel 987 F movement.