The famous and well respected watch brand Hamilton today marries the best in Swiss engineering prowess with a design ethos which is unmistakably American. It has become more and more popular for replica watch collectors all over the world.
It has roots that date all the way from 1892, when the newly-formed enterprise bought out the bankrupt Keystone Standard Watch Company and build in their factory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Taking their name from the noted local political figure James Hamilton, who is credited with founding the town in 1734, the brand cleverly positioned themselves as the unofficial supplier of highly accurate timepieces to the burgeoning railroad business. Their first creation, the Broadway Limited pocket watch, was built to address a raising dangerous problem in the field. Accidents on the flourishing railroad system were becoming more common with no agreed on standard for time keeping, due to disparities between conductor’s watches. The accuracy and reliability of the Broadway’s 17-jewel movement led to them being adopted by more than half of the railroad’s staff and they were soon dubbed the ‘Watch of the Railway’.
The luxury replica Hamilton‘s reputation for precision was enough for the Broadway by the turn of the century, and later the 21-jewel 992, to become the official watches of the American Expeditionary Forces, and in 1914 the company was opted to supply the whole of the U.S military. The First World War also signaled the beginning of the end of the pocket fake watch, with soldiers rigging their pieces to wear on their wrist, leaving both hands free for combat. Taking note, Hamilton released their first wristwatch, the 981. By the end of WWI, a new market had appeared, even more thriving than the railroads; aviation. In the 1930s, the brand became the approved contractor to the biggest names in commercial flight—TWA, Eastern, United and Northwest. However, with the arrival of WWII, tag heuer replica stopped production of its commercial replica watches and exclusively supplied the military, making somewhere in the region of one million pieces.
