Smiths W10 civilian issue DA26 The letters perfectly align to

The letters perfectly align to form the message just once each hour

roughly mapped to the times of day when they would naturally appear

There's a lot of excellent material about the watches the expedition used online

The watch has an beautiful Longines 12

To my mind they are the very essence of horological understatement and quality

Smiths W10 civilian issue DA26 The letters perfectly align toThis is a Smiths W10 watch, but one that was retailed to the public rather than supplied to the British Army. In order to make this a civilian issue, Smiths have covered the military pheon on the dial (although the trace of can still be seem when viewing the dial from an angle). These are really rather rare, indeed only a tiny fraction of the number that were supplied to the military were sold to the public. The watch was part of a contract that