With their military origins, utilitarian design remit, and handsome looks, field watches are perhaps the ultimate everyday “tool watch.”
During the First World War, soldiers were finding it difficult to check the time while also operating their weapons, moving equipment, communicating, and more. At some point, some enterprising soul was the first to solder on wire lugs to his pocket watch, add a leather strap, and wear the thing on his wrist. Shortly thereafter, watch companies began producing dedicated wristwatches for men — what were previously termed “wristlets” for women — adding luminous (and highly radioactive) radium paint, metal shrapnel guards, and more. Thus, the very first military watches were born, as well as the very first men’s wristwatches and the very first field watches.
Some 100 years later, the definition of “field watch” has become a bit murky. Given the plethora of dedicated watch categories these days — from dive watches to chronographs to dress watches and more — it’s tough to pin down what exactly constitutes a field watch. (If one wears a Patek Philippe Calatrava into combat, does that make it a field watch?) A G-SHOCK, perhaps the most ubiquitous contemporary military watch, is most certainly a field watch, though it’s also worn by streetwear types in big cities. And many soldiers during the Vietnam War (and some today) wore Rolex Submariner dive watches into the field. Does this make them field watches, despite the fact that they were designed for divers?
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