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I like mechanical watches and I have 4 of them. My 5th watch is a solar powered quartz. I will post them as I wear them. Anybody else with "nice" watches?
Hamilton UTC Auto from the Khaki Navy collection. Automatic movement, caliber 2893-2, 42mm, sapphire crystal, screw down crowns, stainless steel case with leather strap. Hamilton was an American watch company in PA. They began supplying railroad watches due to accuracy. For WWII they produced over 1 million watches for the US Military and also Chronometers for the US Navy. Hamilton was bought by SSIH in 1974 (which became Swatch Group in 1983) and transferred all manufacturing to Switzerland in 2003. Hamilton produced the first digital LED watch. They also placed watches in movies, namely with Elvis in "Blue Hawaii" also "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Men in Black", "Independence Day" and most recently "The Martian"
I bought this one from Amazon and that makes it a grey market watch. Swatch will never service it because it wasn't purchased through an authorized dealer, but at the price point authorized service would be cost prohibitive.
Hamilton UTC Auto from the Khaki Navy collection. Automatic movement, caliber 2893-2, 42mm, sapphire crystal, screw down crowns, stainless steel case with leather strap. Hamilton was an American watch company in PA. They began supplying railroad watches due to accuracy. For WWII they produced over 1 million watches for the US Military and also Chronometers for the US Navy. Hamilton was bought by SSIH in 1974 (which became Swatch Group in 1983) and transferred all manufacturing to Switzerland in 2003. Hamilton produced the first digital LED watch. They also placed watches in movies, namely with Elvis in "Blue Hawaii" also "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Men in Black", "Independence Day" and most recently "The Martian"
I bought this one from Amazon and that makes it a grey market watch. Swatch will never service it because it wasn't purchased through an authorized dealer, but at the price point authorized service would be cost prohibitive.
