Mad Men (TV show) watches

[mrsnak]

According to the Hill's Bros website, it wasn't until 1964 that they "surged" into New York.
Show this season is 1962.

Interesting that that the stylists would have chosen a Benrus watch for her (not expensive at the time). JLC for him I can sort of understand, but this seems too much of an obscure luxury brand for his character. He was a guy from (recent) blue-class background.
Nice watch, though.
What I want to know is what model Hamilton Electric Pete got.

[Watchbreath]

The show with the coffee can took place in 1961, as to Benrus, just a guess, but Cyma keeps nagging me. This past Sunday, there's a calendar on
a wall, May June, 1963. Thinking back, I was planning coming home on
leave then. Also, the guy who rolled Draper was worried about getting
drafted for Viet Nam, that wasn't a problem yet.

According to the Hill's Bros website, it wasn't until 1964 that they "surged" into New York.
Show this season is 1962.

Interesting that that the stylists would have chosen a Benrus watch for her (not expensive at the time). JLC for him I can sort of understand, but this seems too much of an obscure luxury brand for his character. He was a guy from (recent) blue-class background.
Nice watch, though.
What I want to know is what model Hamilton Electric Pete got.

[bjohnson]

I don't think the ladies watch is a Benrus. The name on the dial isn't long enough.

It also isn't featured long enough to see the action of the second hand which makes me wonder how somebody on another forum identified it as a quartz.

I posted the clearest photo I could find even though it is seen in many scenes throughout the first season (at least).


PS - Other shows in season 1 featured Westclox and Sheffield wall clocks.

[nsmike]

According to the Hill's Bros website, it wasn't until 1964 that they "surged" into New York.
Show this season is 1962.

I was thinking more 64/65 My parents usually bought Maxwell House, but would often buy Hills Bros. on sale, that would fit with a 1964 surge.

[bjohnson]

Another shot


A watch worn by one of the writers

[Francois Boucher]

Later in the second & third seasons, after Draper makes a bundle when the Company is sold, he appears to be sporting a rectangular gold watch, that I believe to be a Rolex Prince... or maybe a Cartier? Although, on "The Fog" (III-5, @ 00:16:06), the watch appears to have a hinged crystal (...or hinged something...), that he opens in order to wind the watch... Hamilton Reverso?

Sorry, I don't have pictures. I can't capture them on my computer screen!

On "The Fog" (@ 00:07:00), Ken Cosgrove brags about his Hamilton Electric.

I guess Don Draper's watches might be American? Bulova, Hamilton, or even Timex? Even a cheap imitation gold-plated thingy... That might explain why, in episode III-7 (last Sunday's episode) he wakes up at 7:23, in a cheap motel, all black & blue after being knocked out and robbed by his hitchhikers, but still with his watch on his left wrist...

[bjohnson]

Some more shots:

[bjohnson]

The logo under the 12:00 keeps making me think it's a Unversal Geneve but I haven't found a match

It definitely only has one crown

[bjohnson]

Some photos from Season 2

s02e01 - I can't remember who was wearing this watch. It was one of the regulars .. I think Ken Cosgrove



s02e02 - Don Draper is wearing a rectangular watch this season (unfortunately mostly blocked by the logo)


another from s02e02 - another shot. It looks like a white dial in this shot but must be refelction. It looks like ablack dial in most shots

[bjohnson]

Some more shots:

An example of a possible lead for Don Draper's Season 1 watch (although the dial colours are reversed)

http://www.yorktime.com/search?cid=63:sku=314

Another possibility

http://vintagewatchrestoration.com/p...W0000477-0.jpg