Following this the Hamilton Watch Company was founded in 1892 and set out to serve the railroad market with accurate timepieces. The rugged, precision watch that Hamilton produced became a favorite among railroad watch inspectors and personnel. In fulfilling the railroads' requirements for accuracy, it also filled the needs of the general public for a timepiece of high quality. By the turn of the century it came to be known as "Hamilton--The Railroad Timekeeper of America."

In World War I American doughboys in Europe found the small wristwatch a much greater convenience than the pocket-size timepiece. While this trend caused a shift in American watch production. The wristwatch was not a new discovery. History records that in 1517 Queen Elizabeth I was presented with a "wristlet in which was a cloche." It was the invention of the mainspring, or coiled spring, as a source of energy that made the wristwatch possible. This invention by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg, about 1511, resulted in the manufacture of heavy, egg-shaped watches with only a single hand which indicated the hours. Aptly called Nuremberg eggs, they were used mostly by watchmen, from which the name "watch" is derived.

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