To start off with, you have what we’ve seen before with the Jazzmaster series. Classic styling in a 40mm case on a 20mm strap, wrapped around an automatic ETA 2824-2 movement. Add in the sapphire crystal, 50m water resistance, and 20mm strap, and you’ve got a fairly standard dress watch. Well, sure, the WR isn’t so standard, but it is a nice addition.
Making this stand out from the crowd, of course, is how they’ve opened up the dial. Far from being a fully skeletonized watch, you can still see a good portion of the movement working away on your wrist. That said, this feels like a bit of a miss. I know most of the open dial watches I’ve shown are not exactly symmetric – but here, things are really off-balance.
For me, when it comes to a dress watch, I think subtlety is of higher merit. And here, Hamilton has made this watch a bit flashier (for lack of a better word) than it really needs to be. Frankly, it may be a treatment better suited to their Khaki line. Within the Jazzmaster family, I would prefer to see a much more subdued cutout. If this speaks to you, however, you can find it as low as $700 on Amazon.
I have the rose gold version of this, I dig it
Do you know when this watch was released?
No, I don’t.