Hamilton Broadway watches

The Hamilton Broadway is a modern, sporty steel line that Hamilton introduced in 2016, taking its cue from the New York Theatre District. The name is older than the collection: Hamilton's first series of pocket watches, in the 1890s, was the Broadway Limited, marketed as the Watch of Railroad Accuracy.

Hamilton launched the line as three watches. They share a red-tipped seconds hand and a sapphire crystal, and each has its own detail. The Day Date Auto shows the day and date together at 6 o'clock, the Auto Chrono adds a tachymeter scale on its bezel, and the solid caseback of the Day Date Quartz is patterned on New York's drain covers.

What separates them is mostly movement and size. The Day Date Quartz is the slim one: 40 mm across, 8.77 mm thick, with a quartz movement and a 20 mm strap. The Day Date Auto grows to 42 mm and 10.85 mm, takes a 22 mm strap and runs on Hamilton's H-30, an automatic calibre with an 80-hour power reserve; like the quartz, it is water resistant to 50 m. The Auto Chrono is the sporty one, at 43 mm and 15 mm thick, with the automatic H-21 chronograph calibre (60-hour power reserve), which also shows the day and date, a 22 mm strap, a screw-down crown and 100 m water resistance.

Each comes on a leather strap or a steel bracelet, and the reference changes with it: the Auto Chrono is H43516731 on leather and H43516131 on the bracelet, the Day Date Auto H43515735 and H43515135, the Day Date Quartz H43311735 and H43311135. Hamilton also made the chronograph with an aubergine dial, H43516871 on leather and H43516171 on the bracelet.