1976 CWC W10-6645-99 British Military Issue Mechanical Wristwatch with Hacking Seconds casesize_28mm Automatic' at 6 o'clock

Automatic' at 6 o'clock

complete with its original crown

Zenith is one of the only Swiss manufacturers to still produce their in-house movements

Inside is Omega's automatic caliber 684

who carried a Smiths watch to the summit of Everest

1976 CWC W10-6645-99 British Military Issue Mechanical Wristwatch with Hacking Seconds casesize_28mm Automatic' at 6 o'clockThis Watch CWC won the contract to be a W10 watch supplier for the MOD in the early 1970s, when the founder, Ray Mellor, quit a rival company, Hamilton, and established CWC. Also referred to as the "G10" as this was the form reference that servicemen had to fill out in order to get a watch, which was issued as a piece of equipment. Confusingly, CWC also made a quartz version of the W10 in the late 1980s and named it the G10. We have here a classic W10