Vintage Hamilton Watch Forums

Always thought these were called Engineered For Action line of watches for all of them, never knew they had actual names.

I have 4 of these dials two black and these.

Here is another one.

The photo of the designer is from Timely Topics 1968 to give you a timeline.

Randy, all I have is the photos.

I actually own a few of these dials, NOS but the watches were never produced. Check out the Pocket Watch, Rene will love that one.

I have seen one of these at NAWCC museum, I attached a color photo of it when I was there.

I am working on a project with the NAWCC, these images are from several boxes full of Hamilton factory negatives/glass slides. At some point the NAWCC will post them all on their web site. I was given permission to start sharing some before they are all done. I am guessing we are a few weeks away. I...

Oh wow, made the lucite's. Those are fantastic. I have only seen the ones at the NAWCC and one in a private collection.

Here is a drawing I have in my file, I am guessing it was a drawing of the proposed dial, but wasn't used.

Coming from you, Mr. detail himself, that's a big ole WOW.

I bought a bunch of original photos and paperwork on the Hamilton Mars Space Clock by Dr. I.M. Levitt. Here are three photos I found in the file of Ralph Mentzer working on the project. I'm guessing he wanted photos of himself smoking a pipe, cigar or none at all. Pretty funny stuff. What is cool is...

How about these guys. I am guessing hats, coats and ties were mandatory.

This is what happens when you drop your vintage watch. It bends or breaks the balance staff or Jewel.

Pursuit of Accuracy, 1940

Mabe clear cache or try different browser?

Jim was convinced it was the bracelet, but I disagreed with him.

This was part of the debate. If we had the spec sheet for it, it would help solve some of the issues. The band is only shown in that ad and I believe Rene said the drawing wat from an annual report?

I sent this to Rene. I called him and let's go on ebay and identify a round watch. Within one minute we found the model. It's super cool system. I am still working on women's models to separate them all. When you see in my system "2-4-6-8-10" that would indicate the numerals on the dial are at 2-4-6...

This is how I identify watch models in minutes. Let's take a watch and how I identify it. Say you send me a men's round watch, with a sweep second hand and it has makers only. This is my system below. I have every Hamilton cataloged (and some not in catalogs but identified) and put them all in folde...

Here is a great example, these are not in the catalogs

Yup, ole Jim was on the side of the clasp band was the only band for a K-475. Not sure we ever figured it out before his passing. But if you look in the 1906-1961 catalogs, which I told him, the bands styled with the K-475 ad I showed him were offered on other watches. He was a firm believer in the ...

I wish I could help, but I have used L&S in Los Angeles and they can't do white and I have used Kirk Rich and they are expensive. As far as L&S, not sure what dies they have.

Not really. I do have a ton of dials if needed, refinished or NOS.

I always like the K-475 with the script writing on the bottom versus the block lettering.

They all work for me.

Here is a tech guide for the Cal 11 fans.

If you want to service it, here ya go.

Just fantastic Randy

I collect ads and an inventory of them. It helps me when people ask about bands. I’m guessing I have some 500 plus Hamilton ads, brochures and other watch advertising merchandising.