Manufacturers
Hamilton
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Overview
Founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892 and one of the defining American watch manufacturers, known above all for railroad-grade pocket watches and for the Ventura of 1957, the first electric wristwatch. American manufacturing ended in 1969; the name continued on Swiss-made watches and the company has been Swiss-owned since 1974, latterly within the Swatch Group. The founding year given here is the American company's — the watches an examiner meets are the products of two different manufacturers in two countries, and this catalog keeps the eras apart.
Notable innovations
- · First electric wristwatch (Ventura, caliber 500, 1957)
- · Railroad-grade 992B and 950B pocket watch movements
- Official name
- Hamilton International Ltd
- Country
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1892
- Headquarters
- Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
- Group
- The Swatch Group
- Status
- active
- Manufacturing sites
- Biel/Bienne, Switzerland