Hamilton Watch Company
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The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland. Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969, shi
Hamilton pocket watch, ca. 1904
Inner working of the Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer
Hamilton Model 22 Chronometer, mass-produced during World War II
Hamilton Ventura, 1957
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)
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Andrew Hamilton was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies who settled in Philadelphia. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger.
Hamilton Watch Company
…Watch Company had trademarked that name, a meeting of stockholders was called in November 1892 and a new name selected. The company was named after Andrew Hamilton, a Scottish-born attorney who laid out and founded Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was the original owner of the Lancaster site on which the factory…
An 1808 portrait of Hamilton by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
An 1892 illustration from Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Building the Cradle of Liberty, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Andrew Hamilton (center), with two women on his arms, discusses construction plans with a foreman during the construction of Independence Hall (shown in the background).