The First Hamilton Wristwatches

Factory documents uncovered in the past couple of years (unfortunately long after my now out-of-print Collectors' Guide was published) show that Hamilton rather quietly entered the wristwatch market five years earlier than other factory records had indicated -- in 1917.As has so often been written, wristwatches were considered too feminine by most men of the era. It was WWI that started to change that perception. Hamilton took advantage of this fact by initially marketing men's wristwatches as "