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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
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The Hamilton Watch Company was established in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892. It produced its first watch, designed by H.J. Cain, in 1893. Also in the same year, Hamilton this Watch Company introduced "The Broadway Limited", a railroad pocket watch known for its reliability and used extensively by the railroads. A version of this watch was adopted for the American Expeditionary Forces worldwide. A wristwatch version introduced around WWI where it was used as the timepiece of choice 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 famous early 20th century adventurers.
The Yankees won the World Series and Hamilton Watch celebrated by introducing the Yankee Wrist Watch in 1928, along with another famous watch- Piping Rock in that time period. Both of these watches are in high quality, cutting edge timepieces of the day. They captured the hearts of the airlines in the 1930s with growing on this reputation, and became the official timepiece of TWA, Eastern, United and Northwestern airlines. However Hamilton Watch closed their doors to consumer sales and concentrated exclusively on developing watches for the military in 1940. There were all most close to one million Hamilton Military Watches were produced during the WWII era. Hamilton Watch creates one of the most dramatic changes ever to watch design when it introduced the Hamilton Electric - the first electric watch in 1957. This marked the beginning of the end for windup watches. And in 1959, they devise 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. The Pulsar is the first kind of digital watch, rolled out in 1972 flowing their tradition of innovation. This watch was designed and manufactured in its Pennsylvania headquarters. Since that time, Hamilton Watch designs have continued to be cutting edge and very desirable to own and collect.
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