[mgiraz]

that Hamilton also produced rocket fuel alloys, special metals for the Apollo program, missile timers and safety and arming devices for military applications? Some feel that they got away from their strength of making fine watches and eventually were capital burners that had to be sold when the watch market was saturated by cheaper watches that the Americans had an appetite for.

 

[Rusty]

The mis-steps that all of the American watch companies made could probably fill a book and seems like if they had held to their core businesses, they might still exist on US soil today.