Vintage Hamilton Watch Restoration

The country was on the cusp of a world war, and although the year would end with a "day of infamy", it would begin with the Rose Bowl on January 1st, 1941.  The 27th showing featured the undefeated Stanford Indians vs no. 7 Nebraska.

One of these days I'm going to have to count how many models I've captured for the blog.  There are just under 1,000 mechanical models and I've done at least 650 of them by now.  It's hard to believe I started this blog in 2012 and here it is 14 years later.  I've still got a ways to go to document all of them and I'm sure that I never will - as there are a qui...

 Hamilton offered all sorts of dial options over the years.  It's probably an interesting rabbit hole to go down and to explore the myriad dial patterns that were available in both the pocket watch and the wrist watch lines. 

You could even special order custom dial with your name, etc. as the markers - sort of like you can get vanity license plates today...

It's been a while since I've worked on something unique and my latest project definitely qualifies.

It's a very interesting model called the Flintridge and it's a model that today's modern Hamilton reintroduced just a few years ago.  Originally introduced in 1932, it was produced for three years.

The major featyre that makes the model distinctive is a solid g...