Swiss watches SWC Glycine or Hamilton

I'd save a bit more, and buy a CW C65 Dune, or C63. If I was set on the field watch styling, I'd buy a Marathon.

I like Glycine more since is a more niche brand. Also for under 400 bucks this is fire

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Curious why you'd pick those. I thought the tradition of the field watch was to follow the mil-w spec with having numbers. Perhaps that is only the US mil spec and not British (as CW is)?

Marathon is nice! But, I guess if you are looking at the Marathon, why not BOLDR, both being non Swiss made watches (American and Singapore based).

Love to hear your thoughts there.

CW makes a Sandhurst field watch, but I prefer the Dune and C63. As for Marathon, they are Swiss made, though the company is based in Canada.

To my mind there are two types of field watch, the Hamilton/CW/Glycine style that are dressy versions of field watches, and the Boldr/Marathon/CWC/Bertucci style that are tool field watches. So in my collection I have CW, and Marathon.

This is why I love these sites and chats. I learn more :)

Not sure where I saw it but you are correct about Marathon being Swiss made. And I got them being American from this sites "tags" so I'll ignore that haha

Marathon makes watches for various American government agencies, so it makes sense to assume they are American.

Own 1 Hamilton (Khaki Field Office 44mm) and 2 Glycines (both Combat Subs). Love both brands, but prefer Hamilton for the more refined finishing, movements, and styling.

Marathon is a Canadian company. Unfortunately, our Canadian government is poor so most of Marathon customers are in the states. It is totally understandable to assume that it is American brand as it might as well be.

The CAF issues/issued Marathon watches, and stop watches...

I was in the RCN and the only thing I've used is the marathon stopwatch (sonar). I believe the S.A.R might be issued to a very small amount of service members. Probably only SAR only. So yea, safe to say majority of their customers is in the states.

I'm pretty sure Combat Divers got/get GSARs as well, the GSAR got it's start as a CAF ask, and was updated to include tritium when the US got onboard. Even down in the US I suspect they aren't issued to many people anymore.

Hard to compare Glycine and Hamilton as they have very different history and heritage. I like both.

They have some really iconic designs. E.g. The Hamilton Khaki and Intra-matic series and the Glycine Airman line. They both have other lines which don't do it for me - like the Jazzmaster and American Classic Railroad (which looks nothing like Hamilton's storied railroad pocket watches) for Hamilton and the vintage-inspired Glycine Combat and the Combat Sub as they seem quite derivative and Glycine doesn't have much of a history of mil-spec, field or dive watches. I like the more modern-styled Combats. I find them quite quirky - is it a dress watch, a field watch, a GADA watch?

I'd say both offer good value and quality. I've been especially impressed by the complexity of the case design of the Glycine Combat Moonphase I own. It has a nice variety of brushed and polished surfaces which catch the light and some clever undercutting which makes it more comfortable to wear than a slab sided design. Both it and my Airman have excellent fine brushing for their price bracket. Dial finish, lume and movement decoration also excellent.

I don't have any modern Hamiltons only a vintage gold Intra-matic from the 60s which is still going strong.

Occasionally Glycines are spectacularly discounted (my Combat Moonphase was under $250) by the US grey market dealers though you do have to wait for the right deal to come up.

Only Hamilton. Brand that is with HUGE heritage, fantastic design and top movement as even those powermatic are the full metal ones and not plastic like in Tissot.