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This page, clockwise<br />
from top left<br />
Sammy Davis Jr<br />
wearing his Pulsar<br />
P1; Joe Frazier with<br />
his Hamilton Pulsar<br />
P2; assembling the<br />
PSR, which features<br />
hybrid OLED and LCD<br />
displays; Elton John<br />
with his Pulsar P2.<br />
found homes in three days. The Hamilton Pulsar P1 was the first<br />
true star of the emerging Quartz Revolution and a breath of fresh<br />
air among mechanical analog watches. It was taking a centuries<br />
old technology and propulsing it straight into the future.<br />
Celebrities couldn’t get enough of it and names like Elvis Presley,<br />
the Shah of Iran, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Sammy Davis Jr,<br />
and Yul Brynner are some of the famous owners of the Hamilton Pulsar.<br />
According to author Don Sauers’ tome, Time for America: Hamilton<br />
Watch 1892-1992, Selassie was so impressed by his P1 that he granted<br />
Hamilton a “Certificate of Excellence”. Davis Jr was so distraught<br />
after his P1 was stolen that he had retailer T-Bird Jewels in Las Vegas<br />
call Hamilton for an immediate replacement. Orders kept pouring in<br />
and Hamilton could hardly keep up with the demand for the Pulsar.<br />
In 1973, the Hamilton Pulsar P2, in stainless steel with a more<br />
rounded case design and an improved chip module, reached the market<br />
at a more affordable price, achieving colossal success. The P2 rapidly<br />
became the period’s must-have watch, with wearers including Keith<br />
Richards, Jack Nicholson, Peter Sellers, Elton John, Gianni Agnelli,<br />
and U.S. President Gerald Ford. Notably, Roger Moore’s James Bond<br />
wore one in Live and Let Die (1973) and the boxing great “Smokin’”
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