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I must blame someone for this...so I am going to blame Brice (aka Jeep99dad)...his recent Hamilton Khaki Navy GMT Poseidon pickup had me looking quite a bit at Hamilton timepieces when researching his piece...I almost picked up a GMT Poseidon and then (as you WIS's know), I got distracted and rather smitten with the Hamilton X-Wind on the nice brown Hamilton leather strap.
As the subtitle description states, this is my first Hamilton and my first Valjoux 7750 and I am very, very impressed and happy with my choice!!! I really like the history of the Hamilton brand and this X-Wind is one of those watches that looks so much better in the flesh than in photos (see pics below, but IMO pictures don't do this piece justice).
I really love the details and execution on this one...the dial work is fantastic from the nicely machined raised numerals, to the guilloche textured sub-dials on the chrono, to the raised lume dots on the dial...great work here and for the price I paid for this gently used one I am stoked. The only thing I would like to see on this one is an AR coated crystal (especially a dual AR coated crystal which would really make this beautifully detailed dial pop!!!)
The size on this one is in the perfect range for me (44mm diameter, 15mm thick) and when I slipped this on for the first time, it just felt perfect (very comfortable with nice wrist presence and the Hamilton leather is really soft, thick, and nicely constructed)!!! I noticed the pics make it look like the chrono tip is slightly off center, but it is just the angle, all chrono tips center perfectly on the dial and on the subdials.
I knew going in to this that I would never use the cross-wind calculator on the rotating inner dial and bezel (there is also some use for this on the caseback as well...I'll have to take a look at the owners manual to figure out how this is supposed to work). The caseback has a shaped "viewport" to view the Hamilton engraved rotor and the standard Valjoux 7750 calibre.
All in all...I'm a happy WIS....here are some pics including reveal:
Unique caseback with viewport and Hamilton engraved rotor visible
Valjoux 7750 visible through viewport
