Here's my two early ones. The C7 Rapide which was a wedding gift from my wife and a C2 Lido which I bought as a gift to my late father.

A selection of golden oldies

@Tonywalker I always wanted the cream dial C8 Sector but it was humongous at 44mm.

Anyway:



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This is my W61, the first 38mm Trident C60.

It's not my earliest CW, but I remember this fondly because after the original 43mm C60 Trident was released, I emailed Chris Ward himself a long essay in Dec 2010 about how he should make some of their men's models in smaller sizes. I specifically asked for a smaller Trident because I felt the design was pretty and it would be attractive to women. We exchanged a few emails, he asked if a 36-37mm version of the Trident would do (I said Yes! but eventually the W61 was 38mm; still fine by me), and at the end he said he would forward the emails to his marketing team.

Here is one snippet:

The benefit of making 38mm automatic watches in non-bling designs and with different colour options ranging from feminine to bold to "serious", is that these watches would have a large crossover appeal among ladies and men with narrower wrists.

[Chris] good point….dont disagree

The W61 was released in July 2013, so I waited 2 and a half years for it to materialise.

Quite late to the party, I started out with a predictably mundane C60 600. But what a stunner those Mk2 C60's were.
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Really great seeing some of those "old" watches again... keep them coming old timers!