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Post by Groundhog66 on Sept 1, 2018 6:43:25 GMT -8
This one looks great, they were able to keep the vintage look, read about it HERE.
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Post by DAHASCO on Sept 1, 2018 10:44:09 GMT -8
This one looks great, they were able to keep the vintage look, read about it HERE. That' a Looker, I like it 7dfe79adc2f0
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tritto
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Post by tritto on Sept 1, 2018 14:03:54 GMT -8
Yep, they look great. I'd be happy to wear one.
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Post by pip on Sept 1, 2018 14:07:08 GMT -8
Gorgeous. What’s under the bonnet?
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tritto
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Post by tritto on Sept 1, 2018 16:44:00 GMT -8
Gorgeous. What’s under the bonnet? A variant on the 7750 I believe.
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Post by Groundhog66 on Sept 2, 2018 7:14:37 GMT -8
Gorgeous. What’s under the bonnet? The heart of the Hamilton Intra-Matic is the calibre H-31 movement. We are talking about an automatic movement with date function and 60 hours of power reserve. Clearly, this is no in-house movement, the base is ETA’s calibre 7753. The H-31 movement, however, received many updates by the watchmakers at Hamilton. The most obvious being the power reserve. While a normal ETA 7753 has around 42 hours the calibre H-31 movement can run about 18 hours more with the same fully wound mainspring. This is thanks to an improvement of the mainspring. The barrel and the escapement as well as the escapement regulator also received updates and were refined. The pushers have a nice and strong click. The watch runs quietly, while the case is a bit thick at 14.7mm it sits comfortably on the wrist. The Intra-Matic is a very pleasant watch to wear.
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Post by HiBeat on Sept 2, 2018 7:43:15 GMT -8
Gorgeous. What’s under the bonnet? The heart of the Hamilton Intra-Matic is the calibre H-31 movement. We are talking about an automatic movement with date function and 60 hours of power reserve. Clearly, this is no in-house movement, the base is ETA’s calibre 7753. The H-31 movement, however, received many updates by the watchmakers at Hamilton. The most obvious being the power reserve. While a normal ETA 7753 has around 42 hours the calibre H-31 movement can run about 18 hours more with the same fully wound mainspring. This is thanks to an improvement of the mainspring. The barrel and the escapement as well as the escapement regulator also received updates and were refined. The pushers have a nice and strong click. The watch runs quietly, while the case is a bit thick at 14.7mm it sits comfortably on the wrist. The Intra-Matic is a very pleasant watch to wear.The Valjoux 7750 usually ticks at 28,800 bph. I've had a few and still have the Pogue-esque vintage Tradition.
These new Hamiltons slow it down to 21,600 bph in part to allow for the longer power reserve. I had the ETA 2824-2 based H Series movement that moved up to 80 hours of power reserve. Strangely Hamilton does not advertise and you'll be hard pressed to find it on the web. They seem to want to keep that out of discussions, kind of odd. I liked imy Khaki Day-Date a lot but it is in that lonnnng list of watches I've flipped.
I really like this new one Tim. Thanks for posting.
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Post by abrosz on Nov 13, 2019 18:27:31 GMT -8
Love, love, love this watch. Liked it so much I purchased the limited edition black dial and blue dial variants as well. I took the manufacturer’s original straps off and replaced them with racing straps instead. They offer a nice vintage chrono look with a modern engine under the hood!
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Post by negatron on Oct 19, 2020 6:25:51 GMT -8
Beautiful piece this hammy I lusted for one but we don't get Hammy downunder.
A pity they didn't do a manual wind model, that would be very fun.
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Post by koimaster on Dec 30, 2020 15:58:28 GMT -8
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Post by suntzu on Jan 13, 2021 10:56:37 GMT -8
Mine today. Love it. They nailed the reissue
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Post by breendjb on Jan 29, 2021 10:59:25 GMT -8
Hamiltons are a vastly underrated watch in my opinion. I have a Khaki auto and it served me well as my daily for years. Needs a bit of TLC now though.
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Post by russtmurray on Jan 31, 2021 14:30:39 GMT -8
Definitely the bee's knees...
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