Vintage 1940's Ad: HAMILTON - The WATCH of RAILROAD Accuracy, A Triumph of American Genius. Reproduction POSTER from my own original ad. Printed on High Quality Photographic Paper. SIZE: (select under Price, top right) -------------- 8.5" x 12" 11.5" x 16.5" 13" x 19" WIKIPEDIA: =========== The HAMILTON Watch Company has manufactured and marketed timepieces since it was incorporated in 1892 and produced its first watch, the 936, in 1893. The precursor to the Hamilton Watch Co., the Lancaster, Pennsylvania based Keystone Standard Watch Co., was started by Abram Bitner in 1886 with the purchase of Lancaster Watch Company's factory. In 1971, the Omega & Tissot Holding Company Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) purchased the Hamilton brand and utilized the Hamilton name for a number of branding efforts, including numerous quartz watches in the 1980s. The Hamilton Watch Division became a subsidiary of HMW. The Hamilton Watch Company changed their name to HMW at the time they sold their Watch division to SSIH. A team lead by John Bergey of Hamilton Watch in Lancaster, Pennsylvania developed the Pulsar, the world's first digital watch. In 1984, Hamilton become a subsidiary of The Swatch Group, but produce today their own line. Vintage ads are not only beautiful decorative pictures - they tell us our past.