New Colours for the Military-Inspired Hamilton Khaki Field Automatic

Hamilton’s army credentials date again to World Struggle I when the American model provided precision railroad watches to troopers below the command of Basic Pershing. With a well-earned status for reliability and robustness, throughout World Struggle II, Hamilton stopped civilian manufacturing to pay attention completely on offering the US Military with subject watches. Now one among Hamilton’s hottest collections, the Khaki Area “go wherever, do something” fashions seize the rugged utilitarian spirit of the model’s unique army watches. Hamilton expands the gathering with new references in 38mm and 42mm stainless-steel circumstances with two new dial colors and matching metal bracelets or leather-based straps.

Harnessing the spirit of Hamilton’s army watches, the brand new Khaki Area fashions are available in sturdy 100m waterproof circumstances with sapphire crystals back and front. Out there in 38mm and 42mm circumstances with a thickness of 11.5mm and 11mm, respectively, the case center has a sporty brushed end whereas the bezel and enormous crown are polished.

Including a splash of colour, the darkish blue and khaki inexperienced dials retain the gathering’s army traits with their giant outsized Arabic numerals for the dual hour scales and the precision minutes observe. With an analogous dial format to the titanium mannequin and the Far Cry 6 restricted version featured within the online game, the brand new fashions reveal barely totally different finishings and embody a framed date window at 3 o’clock.

The central space of the dial with the 24-hour scale is embellished with a sunray impact that catches the sunshine, whereas the hour ring has a matte snailed end, including texture and depth. To help legibility, Tremendous-LumiNova is utilized to the syringe-style hour and minute arms, indices and dots at 5-minute intervals on the peripheral observe. The date window is highlighted with a white body, and the arrow-shaped tip of the central seconds hand is pink.

Powered by calibre H-10, Hamilton’s model of Swatch Group’s Powermatic 80, the automated motion has a Nivachron hairspring to fight magnetism, a 3Hz frequency and a strong energy reserve of 80 hours.

The Khaki Area Automated on a brushed stainless-steel bracelet with a folding clasp (in each sizes) retails for CHF 730 / EUR 825. Fitted with a brown leather-based strap and pin buckle, the watch retails for a barely cheaper price of CHF 650 / EUR 745. Extra data at hamiltonwatch.com.