Hamilton USA Vintage 14k White Gold & Diamond Numbers 32mm Mens Watch - Rare! 海外 即決

For your consideration is a Circa 1950 Hamilton USA，14k White Gold Watch fitted with a brown leather strap.Housed in the rare Hamilton USA 14k white gold case is a Hamilton 982 19 Jewel mechanical movement adjusted， serial number J535930. Marked Original Hamilton Two Tone Dial with 9 Round Cut Diamond with a 12 ， 3， and 9 markers with diamondArabic numerals style. The watch is in fair to good working order and should be periodically manually wound to keep the best time. The rare Hamilton USA Mens watch wears slenderly and beautiful on the wrist for that extra touch of fine class. In 1951， Hamilton rebuffed a hostile takeover bid by the Benrus watch company. The fallout from the failed takeover action culminated in Hamilton Watch Co. v. Benrus Watch Co. (206 F.2d 738， 740 (2d Cir. 1953)， a Federal proceeding that is considered to be landmark in the realm of Federal anti-trust case law.In 1955， Hamilton provided a "celestial time zone clock， permitting flight-type navigation" for the Astra-Gnome concept of what an automobile would look like in the year 2000.In 1957， Hamilton introduced the worlds first electric watch， the Hamilton Electric 500. It was available in a variety of non-traditional asymmetrical case styles including the Ventura that was designed by Richard Arbib. The watch was worn by Elvis Presley， who also featured it the movie Blue Hawaii.In 1962， Hamilton entered into a joint venture (60% owned by Hamilton) with the Japanese watchmaking firm Ricoh to produce electric watches meant primarily for the Japanese market. The electronic components were produced at Hamiltons Lancaster factory while production of the mechanical works and final assembly was undertaken in Japan. Although production levels of Hamilton-Ricoh watches was high (over 1000 per month)， demand was low and consequently， the Hamilton-Ricoh partnership was unable to compete with the substantial market presence of Seiko. The partnership was dissolved in 1965， with the remaining Hamilton-Ricoh electronic movements (marked "Ricoh 555E") re-cased as "Vantage" and sold in the U.SThe Hamilton Watch Company was established in 1892 after Keystone Standard Watch Company was purchased from bankruptcy. During the same year， Aurora Watch Company of Illinois also merged into Keystone. The name of the new company was originally to be "Columbian，" but when it was discovered the Waterbury Watch Company had trademarked that name， a meeting of stock holders was called in November 1892 and a new name selected. The company was named after Andrew Hamilton， a Scottish born attorney who laid and out and founded Lancaster， and was the original owner of the Lancaster site on which the factory was situated.During the expansion of the railroads in the U.S.， Hamilton maintained over 56% of the market. Railroads purchased all of Hamiltons production. As the market switched from pocket watches to wrist watches after World War I， the company manufactured wrist watches. During World War II， Hamilton retooled its business model to serve the military， dropping its consumer products.Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53，000 m2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton eventually took possession of Aurora Watch Companys machinery shortly after incorporation.The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893. During Hamiltons first fifteen years， only two size movements were produced — the 18-size and the smaller 16-size.The companys first series of pocket watches， the Broadway Limited， was marketed as the "Watch of Railroad Accuracy，" and Hamilton became popular by making accurate railroad watches. Hamilton introduced its first wristwatch in 1917， designed to appeal to men entering World War I and containing the 0-sized 17-jewel 983 movement originally designed for womens pendent watches. In 1928 Hamilton purchased the Illinois Watch Company for in excess of $5 million from the heirs of John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn. Some of the most collectible early Hamilton wristwatches include The Oval， The Tonneau， The Rectangular， The Square Enamel， The Coronado， The Piping Rock， The Spur， The Glendale， The Pinehurst， The Langley， The Byrd， The Cambridge， the Barrel "B"， and The Flintridge. Many models came in both solid gold and gold filled cases and， though rare， some wristwatches such as the Grant were made of silver.