Self-winding chronograph Tachymiler replenished Khaki Aviation line by Hamilton — a collection of professional watches for pilots with proprietary special functions. Hamilton is one of a few brands whose collections are clearly specialized. Hamilton has two basic collections of timepieces: American Classic, including classical and designer models, and Khaki, consisting of military watches. In its turn Khaki is divided into 4 lines (Aviation, Action, Fields and Navy), and each of them is dedicated to separate arms of the US army and persents models that are maximally comfortable and functional on land, air or sea. In this respect Hamilton is one of the most professional watch brands for active way of life. Hamilton has been an official watch of the US Navy and Air forces for several decades now.

Hamilton Khaki Tachymiler is a real aviation watch in which the design is conditioned by functionality. Chronograph pushers and the crown are located at the left side as it is accepted by pilots. Such a position is very convenient for pilots to press the buttons by the thumb in a leather glove. Different colours of chronograph buttons make it easier to see them in the darkness.

Proprietary complications of Hamilton Khaki Tachymiler that make the model really outstanding from the line of other aviachronographs are the frame with a tachymeter allowing to measure distance in miles and a professional aviation tachymeter Rotation Speed VR that helps to pilot to calculate speed sufficient for the plane o take off. Its red markers match red starting buttons of the chronograph.

A strong and resilient 44 mm stainless steel case safely encloses a dial with cockpit-style counters. The inherent aviation theme is carried right through to the rubber strap’s black, grooved surface, which is reminiscent of an aircraft’s tires equipped to hit the ground at speed.

The Hamilton Khaki Tachymiler is water resistant to a depth of 100 meters and is protected by a sapphire crystal. The dial comes in black or white with red accents. This watch comes with a black rubber strap or a metal bracelet.

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There are two basic types of wrist watches: analogue and digital. What’s the difference between them? A digital watch is a timepiece equipped with a small computer chip and a digital display which simply shows the time as a number instead of a short hand and a long hand pointing towards some numbers on the dial.

How Did It Start?

The first digital watch, a Pulsar prototype, was developed in 1970 jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data. John Bergey, the head of Hamilton’s Pulsar division, said that he was inspired to make a digital timepiece by the then-futuristic digital clock that Hamilton themselves made for the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. On April 4, 1972 the Pulsar was finally ready, made in 18-carat gold and sold for $2,100 at retail. It had a red light-emitting diode (LED) display. Another early digital watch innovator, Roger Riehl’s Synchronar Mark 1, provided an LED display and used solar cells to power the internal nicad batteries.

Most watches with LED displays required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds, because LEDs used so much power that they could not be kept operating continuously. Watches with LED displays were popular for a few years, but soon the LED displays were superseded by liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which used less battery power and were much more convenient in use, with the display always visible and no need to push a button before seeing the time. The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 Seiko 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch, and the Cox Electronic Systems Quarza.

A Watch to Everyone

Digital watches were very expensive and out of reach to the common consumer until 1975, when Texas Instruments started to mass produce LED watches inside a plastic case. These watches, which first retailed for only $20, reduced to $10 in 1976, saw Pulsar lose $6 million and the brand sold to competitors twice in only a year, eventually becoming a subsidiary of Seiko and going back to making only analogue quartz watches.

From the 1980s onward, digital watch technology vastly improved. In 1982 Seiko produced a watch with a small television screen built in, and Casio produced a digital watch with a thermometer as well as another that could translate 1,500 Japanese words into English. In 1985, Casio produced the CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. In 1987 Casio produced a watch that could dial your telephone number and Citizen revealed one that would react to your voice. In 1995 Timex release a watch which allowed the wearer to download and store data from a computer to their wrist. Since their apex during the late 1980s to mid 1990s high technology fad, digital watches have mostly devolved into a simpler, less expensive basic time piece with little variety between models.

Despite these many advances, almost all watches with digital displays are used as timekeeping watches. Expensive watches for collectors rarely have digital displays since there is little demand for them. Less craftsmanship is required to make a digital watch face and most collectors find that analog dials (especially with complications) vary in quality more than digital dials due to the details and finishing of the parts that make up the dial (thus making the differences between a cheap and expensive watch more evident).

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This bold chronograph with a witty name “Below Zero” is produced by HAMILTON. The new series of Below Zero Chronographs offers a big 46mm wrist dominating dial inside of a black, stainless steel or rose gold PVD.

The usual 12 o’clock mark was replaced by a big full-sized zero. Very original! If you work night shifts and sleep in daytime this innovations seems even useful.

Naturally the Below Zero watch is highly waterproof. It is based on the Calibre ETA 7750. Both front and back cases are equipped with sapphire crystal.

The price of the Below Zero Chronograph is about 2000$US.

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Wristwatches long ago became a full-fledged hero of the famous James Bond movies and more than once saved the Agent’s 007 life. Still in other less heroic films common characters wear quite real watches to which we usually don’t pay much attention.

Absolute Power (1997) became the first film where Clint Eastwood appeared not only as an actor but also as a director. Eastwood’s hero, a hardened safebreaker, in his everyday life prefers Rolex Day Just, but during another criminal job he wears quartz chronograph Swiss Army.

If in two first parts of Batman the main hero managed without a watch, in the third part Batman Forever (1995) Bruce Wayne acted by Val Kilmer replenished his equipment with Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. At the back-case there was a mini-display. And the bad guy Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones)gave preference to Oris Big Crown.

American brand Hamilton, which is today a part of Swatch Group, is considered to be a record holder in the cinema industry because its models appeared in the Hollywood hits more often than others. Hamilton made its début on the big screen in 1961 when Elvis Presley was wearing Hamilton Ventura with a black dial during the shooting of Blue Hawaii.

Everyone has got accustomed to the fact that TAG Heuer’s watches appear as a rule in films about sport, especially about racing as, for example, in Le Mans with Steve McQueen. But another model by TAG Heuer - Kirium - can be seen also in a horror film The Bone Collector (1999) on the wrist of the chief investigator played by Ed O’Neill.

In the film about military pilots - The Broken Arrow (1996) – there were no surprises: John Travolta, an actor and a licensed pilot, wears his favourite Breitling Aerospace.

Omega Speedmaster Professional is one of the most famous watches in cinema. In Apollo-13 (1995) it was even included in the script as it was Omega that saved lives to real astronauts when on board the spacecraft all the devices failed – then the docking was carried out with the help of the mechanical chronometer.

Omega Speedmaster Professional was appreciated not only by astronauts. In the Corruptor (1999) a venal policeman from Chinatown played by Chow Yun Fat also gives preference to this model.

The Daylight (1996) starring Sylvester Stallone is very rich in close-ups of different watch models by different brands. Stallone himself wears Luminor Panerai. Other characters prefer TAG Heuer, Seiko, Casio and Bulova.

It’s interesting to trace the evolution of watches worn by the characters of Die Hard. In the first film you can notice a Rolex on the main hero’s wife’s wrist. In the second film practically all characters – from terrorists to special squad soldiers – give preference to TAG Heuer’s chronographs. And finally in the latest film Bruce Willis wears Breitling Chronomat Longitude.

It’s a common knowledge that Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore was one of the sponsors of the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). Specially for Arnold Schwarzenegger a model T3 was created. But the first time when the hero was saving the world with Royal Oak Offshore on his wrist was in 1999 in the End of Days.

And finally a recipe of success from Hollywood: in the Wall Street the character of Charlie Sheen enters the brokerage firm for the first time wearing Lorus. But he leaves it already in Cartier.

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Doctor Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but he can’t save people from the fatal virus that annihilated all the people in the USA and probably in the whole world. Neville is the only person who managed to survive but he keeps looking for someone else by picking up the radio waves and sending messages. But soon he realizes that except him in the city live evil mutants who watch him and wait him to make a mistake. Together with Will Smith in his new movie “I am a Legend� stars the Hamilton Khaki Sunset.

Hamilton Sunset is the watch that helps Neville in his war with mutants. With them the hero can calculate precisely the time of the sunset. The watch displays the time of sunset on the 15th of the month in 6 cities of the world: London, Gander, Los Angeles, Nadi, Manila and Muscat. Other features of the Hamilton Khaki Sunset include 44mm dial, 200m water resistance, sapphire crystal glass, automatic movement, leather strap and screw-down crown.

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