Hamilton Watch Company, founded in Lancaster in 1892, has been known as a maker of field-ready military watches since the early 20th Century, and the brand is renowned in the modern era as a supplier of watches to movie and television productions (more than 500 as of this writing, and counting). In 2025, Hamilton extended its reach into the entertainment world, establishing a partnership with the Call of Duty interactive video game franchise. The first collaborative release, a Khaki Field Auto model inspired by the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 game, debuted that same year, and this week, Hamilton has released its follow-up: the Khaki Field Mechanical 38mm Modern Warfare 4 edition, the first timepiece in the series with a hand-wound movement.
The watch is based on the one worn by Captain Price, one of the most recognizable characters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and, as per Price’s background in the U.K.’s armed forces, takes stylistic cues from British-issued General Service watches. The stainless steel case measures 38mm in diameter and 9.5mm thick and sports a sandblasted black PVD finish for a tactical “stealth” look. The dial is also black, with a rugged grained texture that enforces its field-ready design, and incorporates the game’s familiar numeral “4” at 4 o’clock, in a typography distinct from that of the other Arabic numeral markers. The hands and hour markers are all coated in X2 Super-LumiNova for a bright glow during night missions (or just civilian evening excursions).
The solid caseback also features iconography from the game, specifically an engraved version of the “soundwave” graphic element that has come to be heavily associated with the Call of Duty series. Behind that distinctive caseback beats Hamilton’s mechanical, manually wound Caliber H-50, which is equipped with a hacking seconds function — a useful feature if you’re actually using the watch to time a military op — as well as a magnetic-resistant Nivachron balance spring. The movement’s hand-winding operation is a throwback to the earliest Hamilton field watches, in the wartime years before the widespread adoption of self-winding watches, while its 80-hour power reserve is decidedly modern.
The case of the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Modern Warfare 4 edition (Ref. H69469930) is water resistant to 50 meters, with a nonreflective sapphire crystal over the dial. It comes mounted on a khaki-green textile strap, with a black-PVD-coated steel pin buckle, which completes the watch’s rugged ensemble. The watch is priced at $795 in the U.S. For more info on the Khaki Field collection and the Call of Duty partnership, visit www.hamiltonwatch.com.
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One small detail I thought was worth mentioning as a Korean:
The distinctive “4” at 4 o’clock has an interesting additional meaning in Korean. The Korean word for the number four is “사” (sa), which is pronounced exactly like “4” in the Korean numbering system.
So, to a Korean viewer, the stylized “4” can visually and conceptually bring “사” to mind. There is also an interesting secondary association because “사” can correspond to the Chinese character 死, meaning “death,” which gives the numeral an unexpectedly fitting undertone for a military-themed Modern Warfare watch.
I haven’t seen Hamilton explicitly explain this as the design intention, so I thought it would be interesting to share the Korean perspective. It’s a small detail, but it makes the 4 o’clock numeral feel much more meaningful to me.
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One more thing I’d like to add from a Korean perspective:
South Korea has mandatory military service for able-bodied men, so military culture is something that many Korean men have personally experienced or are closely familiar with. That makes the Modern Warfare setting especially meaningful to Korean players.
For watch collectors in Korea, I think this Hamilton can carry a meaning that may not be immediately apparent to collectors elsewhere. It combines the military/field-watch heritage of Hamilton, the Modern Warfare connection, and the Korean setting and typography in a way that feels particularly relevant to us.
That makes this more than just another game collaboration for many Korean collectors.