CWC W10 1976-1980

CWC W10 1976-1980

Introduction

The W10 is the most humble and common of the collectible British military watches, a plain field watch issued to British Army serviceman since WW2. There is some general confusion around the terms used for these watches, as “G10” was a reference to the form that serviceman were required to fill-out to receive the W10 watch. Even though the form was called “G10”, this term is colloquially used to reference almost any general service MoD issued military watch, and CWC actually has a model “G10” that references their quartz models post-1980. To make things even more confusing, the term “W10” is used specifically by collectors to reference the “tonneau” shaped case versions of the watch that were issued during the 1970’s.

The first W10 watch was issued by Smith’s in 1967, a strikingly simple and balanced field watch featuring arabic white numerals on a simple black dial lined with a track around the edge of the dial. The W10/G10 has followed the same pattern ever since, and the CWC version is no exception.

Models

• CWC W10 1976-1980
• CWC 1980 Royal Navy Diver Automatic

• CWC 1981 Royal Navy Diver Automatic

• CWC 1983 Quartz Royal Navy Dive Watch

• CWC G10

• 1984 “Hong Kong” CWC auto diver

• CWC 1985 quartz diver

• CWC 1986 quartz diver

• CWC SBS quartz 1992, 1993,1994 onwards to 2005

• CWC RAF 6BB 1983

• CWC G10 navigator produced in 1980, 1981 1982 1994 1996 1997

Links

• Military Watches

• Great Britain

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