The watch in query, the Mellor-72, is an almost precise recreation of the primary watch CWC offered beginning in, you guessed it, 1972. It’s based mostly on the specification for a “Common Service” watch put forth by the MoD within the late 1960s. If the watch appears to be like acquainted, it is in all probability as a result of tens of 1000’s have been made and issued, and plenty of are nonetheless in circulation due to navy surplus sellers, eBay, and navy watch collectors. Not like the rarified air of MilSubs, they fall firmly within the “low cost and cheerful” camp, and for these craving a little bit of issued navy horology, a classic instance is probably probably the most reasonably priced strategy to dip a toe. These watches, descended from the “Soiled Dozen W.W.W.” watches of the 1940s, observe the acquainted method of a sober black and white dial with Arabic numerals, no date, a hand-wound motion, and a hackable heart seconds hand. As you would possibly count on, the crow’s foot/pheon/broad arrow is printed on the dial, denoting property of Her Majesty’s authorities.
