Is there any data on how many Grade 912 secometer watches were made ?
There was about 260,000 Gr. 912, but no reference to how many were the above, from the numbers I would think not many were.
Any info appreciated.
Bill

Bill,

I can't help you on hard numbers, but can say, I see more of them than I thought I would on the bay.

I've considered a few, but they come at quite a premium for being otherwise common movements and cases.

happy hunting, Paul

Being sold during the 1930's and as a special order item likely limited the Secometer to an "educated Guess" range of less than 10% of the total 912 sales. A 1929-1931 period example that passed through my collection is clearly a factory finished and cased "custom" thin model.

Roy Ehrhardt's Hamilton watch Co. Production figures. etc/ book specifies 261,000 - odd 912 production as "912a" to confirm that the 912 model was thinner and smaller than a standard 12s and had a specially fitted factory case.

A population of 10% special ordered Secometer Dialed 912's puts the total production at less than 26,000, and possibly fewer if the secometer 912 was first offered late in the production lifetime of the 912 model (1923-1936).

It is interesting to note that 1936 marked the LAST YEAR ANY 12s watches were delivered from Hamilton Watch Co.

Very nice pictures Dave,

The watch case in your images is a "Farragut" as shown in the advertisement Lindell shared in the 2006 post that Debbie referenced in her post above.

Click for previous topic: Hamilton 912 Digital Question

Looks like Hamilton put a hard sell on the Secometer dial and my thinking would be they may have sold a great number of them. So great they also made a version available on Ball-Illinois and regular Illinois 12-size watches. Waltham also sold a similar dial and as Lindell explains it there were a few post-production South-Bend fully digital watches put together around that same early 1930s time period.

Here is a great 2 page topic showing a lot more information and pictures of each of them...

Hamilton 912 with Rotating Seconds (And Other Digitals!)

Don

I happen to have a Hamilton 922 Secometer. It is the 23j movement and definitely a secometer. The case is original and the watch was presented to a past grandmaster of a Masonic lodge. Does anyone know if Hamilton produced 922 Secometers? It certainly could have been "made up" by a jeweler.

I understand that secometer dials were available on the 904, 918, and 922 grades, as well as the 912. I have a solid gold 904 secometer.