Unwind in Time is the recognized world-leader in the sales and service of historic Hamilton Electric watches and other watches from the cutting edge of Mid-Century design. Jarett Harkness, the founder of UWIT, had always been fascinated by the physics and mechanics of objects in motion ? as a young adult he could be found tinkering with bicycles, cars and motorcycles. But it wasn?t until he stumbled upon a Mid-Century Hamilton Electric Pacer that his focus turned to a much smaller machine ? Hamilton Watch Company’s groundbreaking first battery-operated watch movement. 

The Pacer, in two-toned gold fill, was offered every year of Hamilton electric production, and outsold every other model

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Technological Breakthrough By the 1950s, Hamilton was already well-established as an iconic American watch company with a long and storied history. Their stable of legendary, classic watches from the 1920s/30s deco era ? Piping Rock, Coronado and Spur among them ? was unrivaled. But their crowning and triumphant engineering achievement would be their development of a line of electric watches in the 1950s. 

Prior to the 1950s, wristwatches relied on a hand wound mainspring to power movements. But a rush of post-war technological advances lead to a breakthrough in battery design and size, and for the first time, a battery could be small enough to fit inside a watch case. Hamilton was the first to release to the public a watch that harnessed...