MWC G10 LM Military Watch (Grey Strap) 50M

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The last CWC G10 issued was around 2008 and is the same watch today, just as rugged, reliable, accurate and dependable as it has always been. (Super-luminova is now used instead of Tritium)

The Nite MX-10 isn't really what would be classified as a standard G10 pattern watch but it is a contender and is targeted at the same type of military, law enforcement or government procurement buyers. We have included it because it's a nice watch generally and gives someone an alternative to the standard G10 models. There have been many manufacturers over the years, notably: Buren, Ebel, Eterna, Grana, Jaeger Le Coultre (JLC), Longines, Cortebert, Enicar, FHF, Limi, Moeris, Montillier, Reconvillier, Rotary, Unitas, Kurth, Thommen, IWC, Omega, Record, Timor and Vertex. These were not 'G10s' in the modern sense and are referred to either as ATPs (Army Type Pattern) or the WWWs: Wrist Watch Waterproof.Clearly some sort of standardisation was required and the more familiar mechanical G10s (known technically as W10s) started to appear in the 1960s and '70s: Smiths, CWC and Hamilton. The early 1980s saw the gradual replacement of the windy-uppy mechanical W10s with good, solid quartz designs from both CWC and Precista. Using the same components and Swiss suppliers as Hamilton, CWC began supplying an essentially identical watch to the Hamilton W10, except with CWC instead of Hamilton on the dial. CWC would go on to become one the most famous later producers of British military watches. This watch like some MWC G10's uses tritium GTLS light sources for first-rate nighttime performance, all the leading manufacturers of military watches with GTLS tritium tubes namely Marathon, Nite and MWC would all be buying the tubes from the same Swiss manufacturer because there are no other high-quality sources of supply hence performance would be the same between all three brands.

Most service personnel opt for something robust and cheap, which is why Casios were the de facto 'issue' squaddy watch for so long. But squaddies - being the kit whores that they are - now have a much wider range of timepieces to choose from in the never ending pursuit of allyness. Of late, certain Sneaky-Beaky types have been issued Nite MX10s. Whilst they're an issue item, they're not really of the classic G10 format. Rumours also abound of all manner of Gucci high-end shiny stuff being trialed and tested.Marathon watches are similar in many ways to the Nite and MWC watches because they use the same tritium GTLS tubes. Marathon like MWC produce a very large range of slightly varying models with slightly different specifications but targeted at infantry and law-enforcement personnel. By the late 1970s Hamilton itself was on the ropes due to the Quartz crisis engulfing the industry, and pulled out of the military watch supply business. However, an enterprising British employee of Hamilton, Mr Ray Mellor, their contracts director, recognised that there was still a significant demand for these watches from the Ministry of Defence. Accordingly, in the 1970s he established the Cabot Watch Company (CWC) to take over where Hamilton left off. The CWC G10 is a classic, first issued in 1980 and still available, solid and robustly built they have gone through a variety of different case designs as the quartz movement technology evolved. The first pattern ar very collectable and known as the "fat boy" due to the chunky case.