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1969 Hamilton Chronomatic Ref. 11002-3 - powered by Cal.11 automatic & 1969 Hamilton Chronograph - Ref. 7723 - powered by Valjoux 7730 manual.

The Ref. 7723 is often referred as “Poor Mans” Heuer Carrera. These chronos were produced by Heuer during a time when Hamilton/Buren were shifting factories to Switzerland from Lancaster, PA.

The Ref. 11002-3 is of course part of the famous collaboration between Hamilton, Heuer & Breitling on the design, development and production of the famous Calibre 11 - first automatic chronograph movement

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Here is my latest Hamilton added to the collection. A Hamilton Canteen watch issued to US navy UDT teams in WW2.
 
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to make a trio a panda aqua date perhaps from 1966 ?
 
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Here are a few 992s representing all iterations of the model. The 992 was an open face 3/4 plate 16s watch. it was originally developed by Hamilton to supplement the 18s 940 as many railroads were beginning to move towards allowing 16s watches to be used. The upper left watch is a 1st model of the 992 produced. It has two screws holding down the winding wheel and four feet on the dial. This model was introduced in 1903. The very earliest of these had single rollers, but by 1904 they all had double rollers. The upper right is the 2nd model 992, Hamilton changed it to only have one screw holding the winding wheel and three dial feet. This version was introduced in 1915. The bottom left watch is a 992E and represents the third and final 992. This one changed the balance staff to a friction fit staff rather than a riveted staff, a mono-metallic balance wheel. and it also incorporated an "Elinvar" alloy hairspring. This version was introduced in 1931

The bottom right watch is a 992B. This represented a totally new watch built by Hamilton to replace the venerable 992. Nothing in this watch is interchangeable with the preceding 992s. The plates are completely redesigned in this watch, all the jewels are friction fit, a new escapement was featured on this watch, the winding arbor and stem were different. This watch was introduced in 1940 and would stay in production until Hamilton operations ceased in Lancaster in 1969.

My information comes from the Halligan 16 Size Papers, pgs 146-185.