Hamilton Khaki Automatic

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OK, here's my first attempt at a review. So bare with me.

I had one of these a while back and loved the watch. I wore it for two years as my beater watch. It took everything I threw at it, and functioned flawlessly. The reason I sold it was due to the size. It was 38mm, and I just couldn't pull it off. The one I just got is 42mm.

Here's a pic of what the first one. It just had luminous dots behind the numbers and the hands glowed.

NOT MT PIC



The bracelet is comfortable but a little big for me, so I have to go to my AD tomorrow to pick up my wife's watch. It's back from service and I'll have him take a link out of the bracelet for me. I don't have a screwdriver small enough.

It has a lower profile than my Sub or Black Monster, so it fits nice under a heavy jacket too.

It's pretty simple to operate. Wind it up and it goes. Pull the crown out to position one and the date changes. Position two and the second hand hacks, and you set the time. Counter clock wise to advance, clockwise to go backwards.

The dial is beautiful. It has a gloss chapter ring, with each minute having five different marks in between them. The red tipped second hand adds a nice touch.

The arabic numerals sit on a bunch of concentric circles and the military time sits on a disc that sits above the circles just a little bit. The finish on both is a nice matte black.

As far as the finish of the dial is concerned, it's fantastic. I looked over every spec of the dial with my loupe, and I couldn't find anything wrong. Everything is perfectly straight and in place. No shaky hands applying anything here.

The arabic numerals, dots behind them and the hands all are luminous. I'm not sure how long they glow because I haven't had it outside for any length of time yet. The hands look like mini sword hands.






On the back, there's a butterfly clasp that is pretty strong. It has two push buttons that have to be pushed in order to operate it.



It has a see thru case back. I've been looking at the movement quite a bit since I've had it It's pretty cool. As yo can see it 's water resistant to 100M or 330FT. That's good enough for the pool



It's hard to see in the picture, but it has a sapphire crystal with a very slight dome to it.



The only complaint I have so far is the clasp only has two adjusting holes on it. It's about 12 seconds fast in the the 22 hrs since I've set it. Maybe it'll settle in in a month or so, maybe not. If not, then that's ok too. For what I paid for it, I can't expect it to dead on so we'll see.

I tried to get a pic of the dial thru my loupe here, but it didn't happen Ireally wish I could show you all the quality of this dial, because it's amazing.




Here's a wrist shot.



I hope you all enjoyed this and the pics. When I took them this morning it was 15 F outside, and I was cold