Hamilton in Popular Culture
The first movie to portray Hamilton product was the Oscar-nominated The Frogmen in 1951 when the diving expertise of the characters and watches were put to the test. In the 1960s Elvis Presley followed suit and wore the Ventura in Blue Hawaii. The Ventura reissue was prominently featured in the Men in Black movies. To date Hamilton watches have appeared in over 300 movies. Its best known appearance to modern day audiences would have to be the watch belonging to Butch in the movie Pulp Fiction as the so called 'ass watch'.
The quality of the company's line and its prominent reputation even in the depths of the Great Depression factored directly in the plot of the 1993 film King of the Hill. The story recounts a boy's struggle to survive on his own in a fleabag hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis while his German immigrant father becomes a traveling salesman for the Hamilton Watch Company and away to such an extent that the boy could not be certain he would ever return.
In 2005 Nicolas Ivanoff started competing with the world's leading aerobatic pilots in a branded Hamilton plane. The character Sylar on NBC's Heroes wears a modified Hamilton watch on which the "Hamilton" logo has been changed to "Sylar." In the Scrubs episode My Dream Job, Dr. Bob Kelso is seen holding a Hamilton watch. Also, from the early seasons of House; Dr. House had the khaki king automatic.
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