Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4: Captain Price’s watch
Captain Price’s watch steps off the screen and onto the wrist. For the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Hamilton dresses its Khaki Field Mechanical 38 mm in the game’s colours: black PVD steel case, grainy dial punctuated with yellow, hand-wound H-50 calibre. The game imagines a war between the two Koreas, but the watch looks elsewhere, towards the General Service watches issued to the British Army, of which Price is a veteran. This lineage ties a fictional accessory to the brand’s genuine military past, without turning it into a service instrument: with 50 m of water resistance, it is aimed first at gamers and collectors. It is offered at a recommended price of €750.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, an imagined Korean war
Released on 23 October 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the 23rd instalment in the series. Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, it closes the Modern Warfare sub-series relaunched in 2019, itself a successor to the franchise’s founding 2007 entry, Call of Duty 4. Its campaign imagines an invasion of South Korea by the North, centred on a fictional city named Hajin, with detours through New York, Paris and Mumbai. The player follows, in parallel, a South Korean soldier and Captain John Price, played by Barry Sloane, against an antagonist nicknamed the Archer and portrayed by Mads Mikkelsen. This setting sparked debate as soon as it was announced, and the studio says it consulted regional specialists, North Korean defectors and its own Korean employees. Alongside the single-player campaign come a multiplayer mode and the DMZ extraction mode. Critics have followed suit: 87 out of 100 on PC and 88 on PS5 on Metacritic, the series’ best score in fifteen years according to Forbes.
Captain Price, a British soldier first and foremost
A recurring figure in the series, Price is a former head of Task Force 141 drawn from the British forces. It is this background, rather than the game’s Korean setting, that Hamilton chose to follow in designing its watch. The brand says it drew inspiration from its G.S., for General Service, watches issued to the British Army, and presents the model as a meeting point between its own military heritage and the character’s story. The chosen base points the same way: Hamilton describes the Khaki Field Mechanical as a modern reinterpretation of the FAPD 5101, a military watch from the 1970s. This choice avoids pasting an Asian backdrop onto the watch and anchors it instead in a past the brand actually lived through.
Hamilton, a long history under uniform
This lineage is not mere marketing storytelling. Founded in Lancaster in 1892, Hamilton caught the attention of the US Army as early as 1914, thanks to the precision of its pocket watches. In 1917, the brand launched its “Gent’s Wrist Watch” models in grades 983 and 985, designed for soldiers in the trenches. The Second World War marked the peak of this involvement: from 1942 to 1945, Hamilton abandoned all civilian production to work exclusively for the US armed forces, delivering to the Allies more than a million watches and 19,000 marine chronometers. This effort earned it five Army-Navy “E” Awards, recognising excellence in wartime production. The brand has since extended this image onto screens, with watches featured in more than 500 films and series, including Pearl Harbor, where the Khaki Field Mechanical itself appears. With Call of Duty, this partnership gains a new medium, this time a video game.
A 38 mm case finished in black PVD
Referenced H69469930, this edition keeps the measured proportions of the Khaki Field Mechanical: 38 mm in diameter, 9.5 mm thick and 47 mm lug to lug, with a 20 mm lug width. The stainless steel receives a sandblasted black PVD coating, which kills reflections and gives the case the matte look of field equipment. An anti-reflective sapphire crystal protects the dial. Water resistance stops at 5 bar, or 50 m, a figure suited to everyday use, far from dive watch standards. On the back, the caseback bears the engraving Hamilton x Modern Warfare 4 and the series’ iconic sound wave, which any player will recognise.
A dial coded for the initiated
The black, grain-textured dial echoes the sobriety of service watches while reading like a game interface. Hamilton picks out the seconds hand and the triangle marking twelve o’clock in yellow, a deliberate nod to the game’s colour coding. At 4 o’clock, the numeral takes on the typography of the Modern Warfare 4 logo, standing apart from its neighbours. Some enthusiasts see in this an echo of the game’s title, written “Modern Warfare 사”, 사 meaning four in Korean; the brand does not claim this reading itself. Hands and markers are coated in Super-LumiNova Grade X2, which Hamilton links to Captain Price’s line “Bravo 6, going dark”. Compared with the standard version, the inner 13-24 h scale disappears: the display is limited to hours, minutes and seconds.
The H-50 calibre, old-school winding
Inside beats the hand-wound H-50 calibre, developed by Hamilton exclusively for its watches of this type. It offers 80 hours of power reserve, beats at 21,600 vibrations per hour, has 17 jewels and features a hacking seconds function to set the time to the second. Its hairspring is made of Nivachron, an antimagnetic alloy. This is the collaboration’s first hand-wound watch, following a Khaki Field Auto Black Ops 7 released in 2025, harking back to field watches from before automatics became widespread. It comes on a khaki-green fabric strap, with a 20 mm pin buckle in black PVD steel and an Easy Click system for swapping straps without tools. The leather travel case is inspired by traditional cigar cases, a nod to Price’s cigar.
A watch for the field or for the collection?
Beneath its game colours, this is a standard-production Khaki Field Mechanical, not a service instrument. With 50 m of water resistance and a PVD case, it is intended for everyday wear rather than operations, and Hamilton embraces this by targeting collectors, gamers and watch enthusiasts. Priced at €750 in France, CHF 675 in Switzerland and $795 in the United States, it is announced for a limited time, with no published production number: a special edition, not a numbered series.
Hamilton Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4: when fiction meets the uniform
Video game tie-in products often amount to little more than a logo slapped on an existing item. This one rests on a more interesting wager: searching the brand’s real history for the watch the character might actually have worn. Between a fictional captain drawn from the British forces and the General Service watches issued to that same country’s army, Hamilton draws a credible bridge, backed by more than a century of military supply. The result does not claim a place in today’s soldier’s kit. It says something instead about our times: military imagination is now also passed on controller in hand, and it is through this route that some people come to mechanical watches. That a hand-wound Khaki Field, an object of near-austere sobriety, should serve as a gateway into watchmaking has a certain coherence to it. For the player, it is a tangible souvenir of the saga; for the enthusiast, an honest entry point into a genuinely real lineage.
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Editor: Éric Barse
Journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of the websites www.cafe-racer-only.com and www.scooter-3-roues.com, Eric Barse divides his time between his passions: motorcycles, travel, and watches. A graduate of the Saint-Cyr military academy and the 2nd RPIMA (Parachute Regiment) before pursuing a career in communications and digital media, he has a true passion for authentic watches that have accompanied his two-wheeled adventures for many years, from the Indian Ocean to Africa and Latin America!
