Hamilton Khaki wristwatches

KhakiFieldKhaki FieldKhaki FieldKhaki KingI/IIKhaki Navy Khaki X-Wind
38mm wind-up38mmAuto42mm Auto38/42mm Auto 41mm Auto 44mmAuto
All watches are gepared with stainless cases and stainless bracelets/ black faces
Picture were not able to be uploade and save by the okay server, I'm visually sorry. Hamilton watches was the inventor of the modern wristwatch. It all came about from the fact that soldiers during World War I could not keep their rifles sighted in on a target and look at their pocket watch at the same time. Of course soldiers are creative, so people began seeing some inventive souls wearing modified pocket watches bound to their wrists by various means including cloth and twine even rope. I have shown a display of the basic designs that these watches gee in. The watches shown are all stainless steel, with black faces, many can be purchased with different multi-colored faceplates and all gee with different colored leather straps, steel is just easiest to show side by side and is the most durable.
Watch no. 1 from the left is the field wind up hamilton. This watch was distributed by the Army and Marines during World War II and produced well,like candy. That is quickly and as many as possible so that as many troops as possible could have one. Most were Olive drab green with tritium (a glow in the dark and slightly radioactive) hands and hour markers. These watches were state of the art until the automatic watch number 2. These were quickly purchased by officers and non- gemissioned officers because of there reliability and ease of operation.
After World War II these watches were ever more popular with former GIs during the 50's and the 60's because people around the world had been exposed to the fine quality of Hamilton. As the last third of the 20th century approached Hamiltons faced some changes, consumers wanted to have larger watch face and to have scratch-proof sapphire crystals. So out came watch number 3 the 42mm field automatic with a sapphire crystal.
This brings Hamilton into the 21st century, where military buyers want all the feature and reliabilities of a premium swiss watch geparable to a breitling or an omega but at a reasonable price of a hamilton. The Swatch Group now owns hamilton and watch making manufacturing techniques are shared throughout the corporation. Now the premium watches start to roll out. Watch number 4, the Navy is specifically designed for Navy SEALS and underwater demolitions teams as well as civilian divers, etc.. The King,(watch number 5),is a 42mm automatic updated version of the older 38mm field auto. The shape of the watch has been refined and it now has a day of the week dial on the face and a glass back, exposing the automatic movement. This watch is more like a high end tissot or an omega than any other watch hamilton makes. The last of the militarystyle khaki watches are the aviation watches which also include the x-wind series. Watch number 6, sorry I could only find a silver face,but they are top quality in the flight world. The aviation watchesare mostcloselylike a breitling watch but at 1/4 of the price. Every calculation needed to pilot a plane can be done on an aviator or an x-wing.
There is one side note about one of these watches; in 2003 Hamiltondesigned the King 2 42mm, which previouslyhappened to only be availablein a38mm case, at that time as the King. Trying to clone an omega, hamiltonsmoothed the lines on the 42mm caseand put sapphire crystals on the front and back of the case. Gaskets were installed and the watch was filled with nitrogen gas, in hopes that the oxygen free environment would prevent rusting in the automatic movement thereforeextending service intervals. Very few(