A Totally Unique Vintage Replica Pocket Watch From Hamilton

A Totally Unique Vintage Replica Pocket Watch From Hamilton

Hamilton’s film What Makes a Fine Watch Fine opens with a shot of a transparent replica pocekt watch, its gear train seemingly floating in air. Today we are used to seeing brands advertise their new watches with computer rendered animations that show the mechanics of a watch movement in amazing clarity.

A Totally Unique Vintage Replica Pocket Watch From Hamilton

The Hamilton replica pocket watch is a unique version of Hamilton’s model 992, with plates and bridges made from lucite. It comes from the collection of Rene Rondeau, a watchmaker, dealer and historian specializing in Hamilton replica watches.

A Totally Unique Vintage Replica Pocket Watch From Hamilton

While the Hamilton best replica watch is mostly identical ,its winding and setting works have been reinforced with steel plates to act as bearing surfaces. In a normal movement, the winding and setting of the Hamilton replica pocket watch works rotate and move directly on the surface of the mainplate. If reinforcement wasn’t added, the Hamilton replica pocket watch would have had issues early on in its life.

A Totally Unique Vintage Replica Pocket Watch From Hamilton
Anyway, the Hamilton replica pocket watch represents an important point in time for American watchmaking history.