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Hamilton 16s Dial. Is it anything Special? "Click" to Login or Register 
Sham Agayev
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Master Watchmaker
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Hi Guys. I just purchased this 16 size Hamilton 992 lever set. I believe this dial is the first one I have seen like it. Is there any information anyone has about this dial? It is double sunked. Movement serial number is 1126xxx. Thanks.


Sham Agayev, CMW


 
Posts: 164 | Location: Overland Park, Kansas in the USA | Registered: September 15, 2005
Charles R. Sides
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Hi Sham

I like this dial. Looks like a Ball dial with Ham logo. It was used on mid grade Ham watches like the 956 17j.

Charlie
 
Posts: 719 | Registered: December 15, 2002
Lindell V. Riddle
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Sham,

As Charlie mentioned, there is a striking similarity to Ball Official RR Standard dials.

This is an interesting find. Looking through some of the Hamilton advertising I did not come across this dial listed and I too would like to know more about it. Your movement number dates to the mid teens, my impression and it is only an impression is of yours being from a somewhat later time, perhaps it is a replacement dial.

In the image below, you will see how closely your dial is related to a 16 size Ball ORRS Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen dial design from around the turn of the Twentieth Century. Later Ball dials would be progressively bolder and this "Ball's Standard" dial design was also be used on their Railway Station clocks.

Lindell


Ball's Standard dial design is very similar...

 
Posts: 10553 | Location: Northeastern Ohio in the USA | Registered: November 19, 2002
Sham Agayev
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Master Watchmaker
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Thank you Charlie and Lindell for your inputs. That is what I thought. It does look like a Ball dial. It is double sunked glass enameled.


Sham Agayev, CMW
 
Posts: 164 | Location: Overland Park, Kansas in the USA | Registered: September 15, 2005
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