Very late Hamilton - Unitas Mvt.?

[Dave Berghold]

I just had a watch come in for service and the customer wanted to know more about the watch. It is using a Unitas movement,nicely decorated, housed in a very nice looking RR style case with bar over crown and has a glass back (snap front and back). The dial is maked Hamilton (RR style) and the movement is marked Hamilton Watch Co. Lancaster PA. The customer was told it was a Broadway See Through Limited and was made between 1987 and 1994. On the underside of the front bezel is the number #6134. Does anyone have any understanding of this watch? Who actually made it? Sold it? It is certainly not a cheap RR style watch due to the finishing and case. Any help in determining the details of this watch that I can pass along to the customer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave Berghold

[Dave Berghold]

I just had a watch come in for service and the customer wanted to know more about the watch. It is using a Unitas movement,nicely decorated, housed in a very nice looking RR style case with bar over crown and has a glass back (snap front and back). The dial is maked Hamilton (RR style) and the movement is marked Hamilton Watch Co. Lancaster PA. The customer was told it was a Broadway See Through Limited and was made between 1987 and 1994. On the underside of the front bezel is the number #6134. Does anyone have any understanding of this watch? Who actually made it? Sold it? It is certainly not a cheap RR style watch due to the finishing and case. Any help in determining the details of this watch that I can pass along to the customer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave Berghold

[Kent]

Hamilton still has corporate existence, as a member of the Swiss conglomerate, SMH. In late 1987 and 1988 a reproduction of Hamilton's classic standard watch was promoted by Hamilton Classics, Norwalk, CT. Their offer brochure is in the link below. Interestingly, it cost about $400 at a time that a real 992B in a model 2 or model 17 case, all in good condition, and whose gold would wear longer than the electroplate of the reproduction, only cost $150 - $175 in the regional marts.

Also notice the bow. I believe that this is the basis for the bar-over-crown replacement bows that some material houses are selling. They can occasionally be seen on Hamilton cases made before 1969.

Perhaps this is the watch you're asking about.

Kent

That guy down in Georgia :smile:

[Kent]

Dave:

Did it have the wood box with it?

[Don Dahlberg]

SMH is now called "The Swatch Group".

Don