1976 CWC W10-6645-99 British Military Issue Mechanical Wristwatch with Hacking Seconds price_Á£5000 - Á£8000 were born in Russia to

were born in Russia to a Jewish family before immigrating to the US at a young age

This particular Centenaire has a stunning

baton hour markers border the three subsidiary dials: on the right is the day

Their manufacturing was based in Le Locle Switzerland

1976 CWC W10-6645-99 British Military Issue Mechanical Wristwatch with Hacking Seconds price_Á£5000 - Á£8000 were born in Russia toThis Watch CWC won the contract to be a W10 watch supplier for the MOD in the early 1970s, when the founder, Ray Mellor, quit a rival company, Hamilton, and established CWC. Also referred to as the "G10" as this was the form reference that servicemen had to fill out in order to get a watch, which was issued as a piece of equipment. Confusingly, CWC also made a quartz version of the W10 in the late 1980s and named it the G10. We have here a classic W10