Sometimes, Hamilton watch forums can get lively. (A forum you might want to bookmark). We had a question about dial restoration. I wrote: You might consider a couple of angles on this. First, why would you restore it in the first place? I can think of a couple of reasons. First, you want to resell […]
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by Tom Adelsten If you get anything at all out of this, remember that Vantage watches are not Hamilton watches. Hamilton Watch Company bought Vantage to compete with a flood of cheap watches from Switzerland and Japan assembled in the Asia and the Virgin Islands. United States Time Corporation (Timex) developed an inexpensive mechanical movement (the
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Hamilton WWII Pocket I don’t show pocket watches on this site, unless they’re extremely unique and relatd to wristwatches. Classicwatch has this World War II military watch (51mm) listed on its site. It has U.S. military markings AN5740 MFR’s Part No.33106 Serial No. H-3726 Hamilton Watch Co. This pocket watch has the original black 24
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Meadowbrook Hamilton introduced this watch in 1928 as prestige model for business. They offered it in a hand-made platinum case for $400 or $5,200 in 2012 dollars. It’s extremely rare and none are known to exist in circulation. Hamilton often used damaskeening on the 979. It used the 6/0 (size 0 minus 4/30ths) with 19 Ruby
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Hamilton only manufactured 7,500 of the movements. The 401 went into six models, which include the Andrews, Stanley, Livingstone, Byrd, Ericsson, and Wilkinson – early 1930’s. The 401 movement came with 19 rubies and sapphire jewels, a double roller escapement, sapphire roller and pallet jewels, the Breguet hairspring, and a gold center wheel. It’s a
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