4 Things I learned About The Hamilton Khaki Field Watch! 

No date, handwinding: love it

Everytime i cannot sleep i just take a look at the khaki‘s dial.

Great video. I bought a khaki automatic (the 38 mm version - the curse of the wrist size) and it was the best buy of 2018. These Hamilton field watches are so easy to fall in love with. Accurate, good looking, great for a variety of occasions etc. (btw: thanks also for the Hamilton khaki automatic vs. manual video from a couple of months ago). Greetings from Slovenia and best wishes for 2019.

Didn't your Father buy that watch for you as a gift?That alone makes it very special!

Completely agree! I have the 38mm Khaki Field Auto (mainly because I am OCD about having a date on my watches) and it is my EDC watch. I find that, out of all my watches, I look at this one the most just to admire it! Love it's versatility and the fact I can put it on any strap and it looks amazing! Easily my best watch acquisition of 2018!

Been watching this vid on a regular basis can’t help it. I finally got a Hamilton Field Khaki Mechanical like your and I love it. Thank you sir....

It looks nice on that band. Nice job. I do prefer a "hand wind only" as they are typically thinner.

Just got mine in the mail today! My first watch! I absolutely love it.

This video is a love letter to a watch. One of your best.

I agree. We went to Hawaii a couple weeks ago for 5 days. I always take 2 watches on all trips (pleasure and work) one automatic and one quartz. I took the Monster gen 2 and a Citizen diver (probably my favorite watch). The Citizen was never worn. The Monster went from swimming, to snorkeling to just lounging. It just feels good to find the right watch for the right time. Now my memories are "imprinted" on that watch.

My wife and I took a 10-day trip through the EU earlier this year. We sailed along the Danube river starting in Vienna then to Durnstein - Melk (Austria), Grein - Linz (Austria), Linz - Passau (lower Bavaria, Germany.), and Munich (German state of Bavaria). We toured many cities, towns, and villages along the way….it was awesome! Of the 70 plus watches in my collection, I only brought one watch with me on that trip. It was my Hamilton Khaki King Automatic #H64455533 - and it served me very well!

Love my Khaki; being Ex military who was issued a CWC G10 quartz; I had to put nostalgia behind me and grab a mechanical field that ticked the box of a G10, had to be old school, had to be Swiss and had to have a military vibe 👍💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You bring a very valid point about mechanicals. I believe there was more of I guess a relational point in the days of old when a man would take off his 34-36mm mechanical watch back then and wind it because he would depend on it to tell him the time. Simple mechanism, but profound nonetheless.

I love wearing this watch! Truly where less is more, so iconic! Thanks for the great vid Jory!

Winding the clock by hand reminds me of my deceased father who used to take off his watch and wind it up before going to sleep. This is the best reason for me to buy this model of watch.

My parents bought me one of the LLBean Hamilton watches many many years ago. After a while it stopped working and I sent it back to LLBean for a replacement. By that point, they were no longer selling it and gave me the money back. I sure wish I still had it. I really need to add one to my collection after watching your video.

Love my Hamilton Khaki Field old paper dial! My brother saw it on my wrist and now he's got the same one. My son got the Khaki King auto for christmas. The family is filling up with Hamilton watch owners.

Also my second most legible watch. I love how easy it is to read the time.

I love this watch. The 80hr power reserve means I can wear it every other day and find time during the day to wind the spring up to full power, and most people are shocked when I tell them it's a Swiss watch!

My favorite watch during winter. The sleeves on my jackets and coats slip right over it and doesn’t snag. Extremely comfortable. No nonsense, durable, and reliable. Also my most accurate watch.

My every day manual watch is my nomos club campus 38. No complications, clean look :)

Merry Christmas, and Happy 2019, T3 - great video - love this watch.

Just received the Hamilton Khaki Pilot "Interstellar" in the mail, and im loving it!

after 4 years of apple watch, i got a khaki fleid mechanical like in your video and man... i love it so much.. its funny that this watch is more exiting for me than buying every year a applewatch which tells me how i should feel :D

Just bought mine finally! Great video thank you 😊

Great video and great watch. I just ordered one of these watches too. Couldn't be happier with it. Keep up the great work bro!

Congrats with the 60K subs Merry Christmas to all

A good alternative is the marathon general purpose inox mechanical. It's a fantastic field watch with tritium lume. The eta 2801 is very accurate in mine.

I'm wearing it tonight. Thanks for the great content.

I love how you notice and focus on the details. Yes, please make that video on the movement replacement for your L.L. Bean Hamilton = very cool. Great video, Sir - Thank you.

I grew up in 60’s, hand wind was the vast majority. Wasn’t a big issue to wind watch once a day, you took a fast check of time at same time. Lots of peopled used to set their watches ahead certain amount of time, not because of watch lossing time, but to get them moving ahead of time. My wife has every clock in house set to different times ahead. I have several vistok hand winds. Love them. Might buy Khaki some day.

I just bought an automatic Hamilton Khaki field watch. So excited to start my watch journey

I love handwind! It’s being interactive with your watch! Your video was great as usual, then you just kicked it to phenomenal at the end😉 Glad you had a blast!

My wife got me a Khaki King Auto with the Day & Date complication, loving it every second I wear it, definitely my everyday watch

What do you think of the Bertucci -2T Super Classic Titanium as compare to the Hamilton Khaki Field Watch? What do you think of the Erikas Original MN strap? Do you think it will match the look with your watch or the Bertucci-2T? Thanks

Happy Holidays to all. A simple thing executed well is a beautiful thing. The more a thing does the more it distract you from the task at hand(pun intended). A watch that tells me the time while I'm running around town is all I need. For everything else I have my cell phone.

Love my Khaki Field automatic 38mm and love the manual interaction with my Omega Speedmaster Pro manual wind. Guess that makes me a watch geek. ☺️

I really like the look of a lot of the Hamiltons. I'll have one some day.

Love your energy and enthusiasm! Liked and subscribed! Hamilton khaki on my Xmas list 2021!

Next on my list for sure! While I do enjoy my Seiko SNK807 for sure as it was my first proper horological watch and I do like tool watches like field watches, I recently held a Khaki mechanical in my hands and it just felt right to me and I do like that old school military aesthetic, I kind of see it as the Jeep of watches as they both have significant military history behind both brands like the Willys MB of WW2 and the Hamilton’s worn by the same troops that drove those same Willys during the war. It’s just cool that my Wrangler JK and the Khaki are historically tied to those.... direct descendants if you will.

I got one and I totally agree. Its perfect!

On a serious note, I’ve been around for a bit and just wanted to say good job and your videos are really polished; they’re funny, informative, and a good source of information and entertainment.

Thanks, very informative. Been planning to get this watch for some time, if it is windable, how often do you need to do it to keep it running?

Hi T3, I have the black Titanium auto version and love it boy is it a strap monster! Thanks for the video!

Simplicity is beautiful. It does one thing, and one thing beautifully, tells the time.

I use the 24 hour format on my casio sgw100 digital, so I love the fact it has the 24 format on the face. I also like the idea of hand winding a watch, it's that interaction between you and the watch I don't get with my digital. I cannot wait to get mine.

I opened up the back of mine recently and learned there's an antimagnetic shield inside! Nice added bonus that I don't remember seeing in any of Hamilton's descriptions.

I like Hamilton! Just bought a khaki king 50 days ago. It's insanely accurate, whenever I check the time, it only runs within10 secs fast or slow. Never adjusted the time so far. Highly recommend!

Hi Jory, what do you think of the size of the crown, is it to large? Have you had any issues with the water resistance on this? Great video thanks!

I recently purchased the Hamilton khaki 42mm auto. I’m in love with this watch! However, I’ve heard some negative things on the H10 movement. That it was prone to breaking if even slightly over wound. I Acualy heard do not hand wind more than 10 times? What are your thoughts?

Got the same one with the white dial and this watch is just amazing. Love the case, the feel and the look. And with a leather nato you can even explore its dressy side 🙂

Great review. I went with the pre-2018 version of this watch as I found the dial to be less cluttered.

I got my first Hamilton this week and I agree about the winding part

Merry Christmas Jory... perfect holiday episode.

Jory, I bought a hand-wind khaki over 10 years ago for my little brother whom is a history buff and then wished I'd bought one for myself ever since! A deep rabbit hole later and now I own both a Hamilton A7 and a Bulova A11 from WWII. So Hamilton never made a hacking seconds in WWII, they still produced over 100k of their model for the war effort! (Sub-seconds), oh and a miniscule 32mm! How 'times' change!

Welcome to my neck of the woods! (5 years ago 😂), glad you enjoyed San Diego! I just bought a Khaki mechanical, it should be here tomorrow. My only uncertainty is winding/overwinding it.

I just bought a ostrich strap for my SARB065 after seeing how amazing it looked on yours. The band is pretty stiff, how long did it take for yours to break in?

Is the link you provided on Amazon the same watch that you were doing a review on ?

Love those khaki fields! I own 2, a khaki quartz from 80s e a mechanical from 90s. I love them!

For the broke bois get that Seiko 5 SNK809

My Khaki King is and always will be my favorite in my collection.

Oddly enough, I've been looking into Hamilton watches a lot lately and noticed a couple of their field watches on sale. It's a brand I've been wanting to get into, so I contemplated it very hard yet ended up with another Seiko instead (Orange Samurai, which I currently have on a 3-hole leather rally strap with orange stitching that is a style I've never tried before). I kinda feel like I'll probably end up with a Hamilton dress watch as that Jazzmaster just keeps growing on me every time I see it I motion. Oh, and there is something to winding a watch by hand as I wind my Strela Signal nightly even though I don't wear it quite as frequently as I used to. I'm pondering adding a manual wind chronograph, but this talk about field watches also got me pondering the Marathon version with tritium tubes as I have their Navigator pilot watch and often use it as a nightstand clock to avoid having a brighter light from an actual clock or my phone shining in my eyes.

@TheTimeTeller hi TTT .. i have a question... :) recently i got a HAMILTON 9797 Field watch ARRI (motion picture co.) Edition ... i looked all over google but i cant find the history of this watch .. do you know enything about it? ..

Just got this watch from my gf as a Xmas gift!!

Thank you for another excellent video Jory :)

I bought my first Hammy khaki field auto in late november. It went straight to the top watch of my watch year!! Not bad, in competition with my Seiko SKX009! Very versitale watch I must say my Hammy. It sits very low on my wrist so it doesn’t bump into something very easy. Then it has 80 hrs powerreserve, yes you heard correct as you already know!! Isn’t that amazing or what??!! I wish you a good year my friend!!‼️😍😍

What were your thoughts on the glare from the crystal? I have heard it’s the biggest gripe with that watch. I would imagine the California sun is a decent benchmark for whether or not it remains legible in direct sunlight. I’ll be out in San Diego for a wedding in March and really want to get a new watch and the Field has been in my sights, along with an SKX013 (yeah somehow I don’t own an SKX variant yet). I’ve been to LaJolla and they have a few beautiful watch shops, hopefully you had a chance to visit them!

I had one like this when I served with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Viet Nam. I wear a new one now (with the 80 hr power reserve). It’s the less is more thing. Iconic.

Hey Jordi - saw you video on the Serica the other day so, knowing what you know now, which field watch would you buy between the Hammy and the Serica 4152?

I bought an LL Bean labeled Hamilton watch in 1991 with white Railroad dial, still wearing it today.

Jory, Hey, I just discovered you and your channel. Good stuff! I like how you add elements to your reviews that are unrelated to watches. It’s refreshing. I had the Khaki Mech 38 for a time and, like an idiot, subsequently sold it. Ahhh...I am mere moments away from undoing that mistake!👍😄 Be well and keep the groovy reviews rolling! Dan

Anyone else NOT okay - like, on a very real level - without a manual wind watch in their collection? It’s a must. Truly.

Why did you choose to wear the Hami versus your explorer 2?

I agree I love my 40 mm version :)

Hey Jory another great video always entertaining and educating. Can you please fill me in on what the deal is with Swiss Army...or should i say Swiss Military...or Wegner...Hanowa..CX..or Victoianox. What is the difference between the models/makers? Who makes the best one? I find this all very confusing. I've been happy with performance and functionality or their knives over the years...how would you rate the watches? I understand there is a tonne of styles that they offer...maybe you could give me your thoughts on one of their chronograghs in say the $150-250 USD range as this is what would interest me the most. What would you suggest as an alternative/s to consider if you are not a believer in the swiss army brand? Thanks for your input.

Love the watch but I also hope that Hamilton made a smaller version of the Khaki Aviation because 42mm is too big for my wrists small wrists

Awesome,passion about handwinding in your eyes my man,true enthusiasm,true love.👍

“Plump breakfast sausages” 😂😂😂

I purchased my first Hamilton wristwatch a few months ago. Then my second, third, and seventh. I own a Khaki Field King. It is rather thin and comfortable I barely note it’s there at times.

Simplicity is a sign of understanding

Love the review and love La Jolla. I liked hang gliding there at Torry Pines. Long ways from ManVegas😂

Great video, I have been considering this watch

I recently purchased the Hamilton khaki pilot, the day date function seemed off. Returned it and ended up getting the brown dial version of this watch instead, complete win. I think the brown dial version is underrated also.

Think about buying a khaki field mechanical but read a lot about the hand winding breaking right out of the box. So how reliable is the watch and is it worth the investment?

I got the brown-dialed model for X-Mas ! :D

Great video man!

Hamilton is a great brand. They have always for some crazy reason not ended up in my collection. But I have to get one!

Do you have to wear this watch day and night to make it work properly?

Laco is worth checking out!!

Can you review the Hamilton khaki pilot daydate? Looks great imo Love your channel

Agree with you 100% Jory. Love my Hamilton.

The history and provenance of the Hammy field watch knows no equivalent. Sure the Rolex Explorer is a “better” watch by most every measure, I would be terrified of damaging it at every turn. This makes the Hammy the best choice in this category.

I love this watch! I have the white dial version!

I’m wearing this exact watch while wearing this video.

I own this watch. Love everything about it, but scratched mine a short while ago. Banged it against a glass window as I was walking past and some of the coating came of from the lower right lug. I feel like I should'nt be too worried about it, because the watch is meant to be used and maybe even abused, but it still bothers me everytime I see it. So it's durable, just be carefull with the coating on the case. Subscribed yesterday, I love your energy! 💪

I think Jory has a crush on his Hamilton Khakis field

Nice watch strap combo there Jory

Hello Time Teller, I have also this watch! Can you tell me if the crown turns backwards when winding? Is it normal? Thanks

I've been using a Seiko 5 (SNK809) for the last several years for the exact same reasons. I was about to get a Khaki, but the 69USD price of the SNK was too good to pass up.

I see you’re left handed same as me, I got the same watch , did you have any issues with the big crown?? It hurt me a bit , can i get used to it?