CWC G40
Four decades after standing duty with the US Navy in London, FPO New York 09510 for everyone who ever wrote a letter home, a sailor wears a CWC G40 to the 40th anniversary reunion in Las Vegas. The watch is no accident: CWC has supplied the British military since 1972, and a British pattern service watch on an American Navy wrist is exactly the kind of souvenir a London tour leaves you with. Broad arrow on the dial, striped NATO on the wrist, old shipmates somewhere past the fence line. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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CWC G40
The Cabot Watch Company has supplied watches to the British Ministry of Defence since 1972, and its G10 general service watch spent more than four decades on British wrists. The G40 is that watch grown up: the same broad arrow dial language in a 40 millimeter case with a sapphire crystal, screw down crown, and 200 meters of water resistance, quartz because service watches are tools first. It is one of the few affordable watches whose design is a genuine military issue pattern rather than an homage to one.
US Navy London, 40 Years On
The submitter served with US Navy activities in London, the command that lived at Fleet Post Office New York 09510 back when a duty station's mailing address was part of its identity. The photo comes from the 40th anniversary reunion in Las Vegas, the CWC on a striped NATO for the occasion. Reunions are where service time gets measured honestly, in the people who show up, and a watch with British forces lineage is the right one to wear while remembering a London tour.