November 2013

When the United States entered World War II, the government ordered civilian watch production stopped. Hamilton became the first watch manufacturer to begin shipping timepieces to the US Military. For Hamilton, the war years became another distinct era in the company’s life span. The Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania went through several generations of […]

The United States economy began its steady climb after the recession ended in June, 1939. Officially, the United States embraced isolationism. England toyed with the idea of letting Germany have the whole of Europe as long as they let left Britain alone. Roosevelt laughed at the American ideal of Isolationism and began preparing for war.