Tom Adelstein

The Hamilton Ricoh was a joint venture. The electric components were made by Hamilton and mechanical ones were made in Japan (realize this was the 1960’s – Japan was cheap labor). The company marketed the movements as Ricoh. I  owned a Vantage watch with a 130E  Standard Time Corp movement. I bought it in a […]

I spent last summer at the Texas Institute here in Paris. After two weeks, I realized that Frank Poye provided me with what I came here for. I could tear down a watch, put it back together and it ran. Some of the watches he gave me, didn’t run and by the time I put

In the 1941 Catalog. The Barry came with a  982 Movement. 14K Gold Filled with 18K applied gold dial.  Retailed for $55. Copyright 2006-2017 | All Rights Reserved

What’s happened?What do you expect? The Hamilton that made wristwatches like the Morley doesn’t exist. Someone bought the headquarters buildings and turned them into condominiums. Swatch owns the Hamilton name and they make Khaki’s, Chronographs and watches than look a little like a “Thinline”. You don’t need schooling in economics to understand that a static

While this watch appears like several others including the Endicott, Prescott and Haddon to mention a few, it has some distinguishing features. The main identifying marks include the second subsidiary dial, the movement and it’s appearance in a 1954 Hamilton Catalog. Let’s look: To the side is the Nielsen and on the bottom you can