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What a rare and wonderful find! It's a treat just to read about it.

That's the first original band I've ever seen for a Cross Country. Talk about rare!

Looks like eBay already pulled it down.

In all the years I bought, sold, and restored Hamilton watches I never even saw one in the flesh. Definitely a rarity!

That's certainly interesting. I'd never heard of Hamilton actually using a person to represent the product line. Here's a different Hamilton beauty, working on the production line. I suspect there was a reason that the photographer chose her to represent the job, and not Dick Slaugh (head watchmaker...

That is an absolutely breathtaking find. Wow!! I wish I'd had pictures of that when I wrote an article about the case and dial photo-etching project for The Bulletin several years back. I'm pretty sure I illustrated the sign showing that very dial.

A Starring Role on the Wrist What do “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Mad Men” and all four “Men in Black” films have in common? Watches by Hamilton. Feb. 19, 2020 BIEL, Switzerland — The awards season is prime time for fashion designers and jewelry houses, but luxury watchmakers are in the scrum, too, as...

Yikes -- that's news to me! I don't even remember the interview, though that's because I answer so many questions I can't keep them all straight.

Thanks for the post!

Over the years I've handled literally thousands of Hamiltons with 11/16" lugs (the vast majority of Electrics were that size). I've used 17mm, 17.5mm, and 18mm straps for these. Invariably the 17 was ever so slightly loose; the 17.5 very nearly spot-on; and the 18mm a bit of a squeeze to fit in. Tha...

Many of the cld series of watches had special gaskets unlike anything made today. The method of gasketing was also different from traditional 'waterproof' watches. But in any event, these would never have passed a pressure test even when new. They were not made or marketed to be waterproof, just "se...