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MIL-W-46374 is a specification first published on October 30, 1964, [1] for US military watches. [2] The 46374 was specified as an accurate, disposable watch. In its span, it encompassed metal and plastic cased watches with both mechanical and quartz movements. [2]
The Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton took possession of Aurora Watch Company's machinery shortly after incorporation. [citation needed] The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893.
Both the H-45 and the H-47 were powered by a single, uncowled, Pratt & Whitney 9-cylinder radial: the H-45 had a 450 hp (335 kW) Wasp and the H-47 a 525 hp (390 kW) Hornet. The Hornet gave a 10 mph (16 km/h) increase in cruising speed and a slight (3%) increase in useful load to 2300 lb (1043 kg). [2] Both types first flew in 1928.
The weight pivots at the edge of the movement and can oscillate up and down. The movement of the weight is limited to about 40°. This is the most common design produced by many makers including Breguet. [14] These watches were called jerking watches because, even with buffers, when the weight hit the case the whole watch would jerk. Center-weight
The firm was the successor to the firm of Owens, Ebert & Dyer (founded in 1845 by Job E. Owens) which went into receivership in 1876. [1]In 1882, George A. Rentschler, J. C. Hooven, Henry C. Sohn, George H. Helvey, and James E. Campbell merged the firm with the iron works of Sohn and Rentschler, [1] [2] and adopted the name Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co.
Hamilton Hawkins Howze (21 December 1908 – 8 December 1998) was a general in the United States Army. He was a developer and advocate of helicopter-borne air mobility warfare. Early life
Hamilton H-45, a six-passenger-seat, all-metal, high-wing monoplane HMS Acheron (H45) , an A-class destroyer Koboro Station , a Japanese railway station with code H45
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969. The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (America, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.