While sharing the same baseplate, they also share the same power reserve and a technical layout looking for robustness rather than stand-out features, like a column wheel mechanism or a silicon balance spring, hard to get in this price range.
Here is why from a technical standpoint: the new calibre H-51 derives from the self-winding H-31 calibre. We all want a slimmer case when buying a watch this engineered, yet the two options are comparable in size, back to back. The case moves from 14.7 mm (the automatic Intra-matic) to 14.35 mm you’ll measure on the Chronograph H instead. Once secured onto your wrist, you might find yourself disappointed in discovering the case thickness’ reduction is negligible. The dial comes with baton indexes partially filled with vintage Super-Luminova® and no date window at all, while a glass box sapphire crystal mimics a Chronograph A‘s plastic glass. Housing a manual-winding movement and offering a slightly different style, the new Chronograph H watch is a call to action to vintage watches aficionados, who’ll find cues from a long-gone era. Hamilton Watch aimed to offer two similarly sized and performing chronographs, on paper, to different groups of admirers and potential buyers. Let’s ask Hamilton to reissue the Chrono-matic equipped Chrono of the past, with the winding crown placed on the left, too, and we’ll end up wearing the coolest two-counters chronograph priced under the 2000 Euros threshold. The Hamilton Intra-matic Chronograph H pays tribute to the 1968 A and B chronographs. With the Chronograph H, the seventies-inspired manual-winding two-register chronograph reaches new heights and might easily outperform its self-winding sibling while sharing most of the specification sheet the case measures 40 mm and is paired to either a panda or a reverse panda dial it houses a large crown and oversized pushers. You’ll read more by reading the article in the meantime, watchmaking proves it is a business where tradition often wins hands down over innovation, and, case in point, the new one is a jab to those who are eager to innovate or disrupt for the sake of it. The cherry on the cake is that the new offering comes standard with a manual-winding mechanical movement for the first time. What matters the most is that the Swiss-American watchmaker has released a four-piece collection of timepieces that place it ahead of the competition when engineering a chronograph geared towards the most demanding vintage Chrono die-hard fan. We asked, and they listened and delivered: here is the Hamilton American Classic Intra-matic Chronograph H in all its beauty or, let’s cut a long story short, the Hamilton Intra-matic Chronograph H.
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