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Has there ever been one? If not why do you think they haven't ventured into the market? Would you buy one?
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neil8fletcher3 wrote:Has there ever been one? If not why do you think they haven't ventured into the market? Would you buy one?
No idea. No idea and possibly, if they did a good job of it.
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Don’t think so. No idea why not. Probably not, not my sort of thing.
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A field watch and I think Hamilton.
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Errr - what's a 'Field watch'?
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I was just about to ask the same question!

- Diver: Swimming watch, also worn by others. Sometimes large#.
- Chronograph: Two or three sub dials for timing stuff.
- Dress watch: Smarter than the above, just don’t bang it around or get it too wet.
- Pilot: Makes folk think they are a pilot. Often too big for the person wearing it (#see diver).
- GMT: Second time zone, comes in many shapes and sizes.
- Sports watch: A diver without a twisty bezel, but still has enough WR for any recreational diver.
- Field watch - no idea’

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^^^ Military inspired watches as far as I'm aware.

Not sure whether this was something started by Hamilton that ended up as a general term (much like a "Hoover") ??
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A field watch is a direct descendant of the military watches issued during WW1. Usually tough and very legible. For example: https://www.gearhungry.com/best-field-watches/
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Paul Drawmer wrote:Errr - what's a 'Field watch'?
Is it what a farmer wears?
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Thermexman wrote:A field watch is a direct descendant of the military watches issued during WW1. Usually tough and very legible. For example: https://www.gearhungry.com/best-field-watches/
I think this explains why CW haven't done a Field Watch, I think the Field, pun intended, limited as demand may be is fairly well covered already.
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Termite wrote:
Thermexman wrote:A field watch is a direct descendant of the military watches issued during WW1. Usually tough and very legible. For example: https://www.gearhungry.com/best-field-watches/
I think this explains why CW haven't done a Field Watch, I think the Field, pun intended, limited as demand may be is fairly well covered already.
Didn't stop them with divers.
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CWL have a clear marketing dynamic and ethos to provide Dress, Diver, Aviator and Motorsports watch; as Mike France explained to me at SalonQP a couple of years ago.

A Field watch doesn't fit this dynamic / ethos.

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Robden wrote:
Termite wrote:
Thermexman wrote:A field watch is a direct descendant of the military watches issued during WW1. Usually tough and very legible. For example: https://www.gearhungry.com/best-field-watches/
I think this explains why CW haven't done a Field Watch, I think the Field, pun intended, limited as demand may be is fairly well covered already.
Didn't stop them with divers.
There's a lot more demand for divers, particularly good ones, than there ever will be for field watches unless there is a major war, by which time a Field watch will quite possibly obsolete.
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Bahnstormer_vRS wrote:CWL have a clear marketing dynamic and ethos to provide Dress, Diver, Aviator and Motorsports watch; as Mike France explained to me at SalonQP a couple of years ago.

A Field watch doesn't fit this dynamic / ethos.

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Thanks Guy that's a shame I'd really like to see a CWL field watch/tool watch
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Post by Bahnstormer_vRS »

@neil8fletcher3 - of course one should never say never, Neil, and in the same way as the new C65 Vintage Diver is about to be released, it is entirely possible that we may see a CWL Field watch in the future.

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