Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to make an existing watch feel completely different.
By shedding a few dial details, Hamilton’s Khaki Field King takes a big step away from its military heritage and opens up to a wider audience. The new, more approachable look matches the watch’s well-established status as a perfect everyday option.
Hamilton has positioned the Khaki Field King Auto as a more refined version of the standard Khaki Field models for a long time. But its refinements, like a day-date complication and a pie-pan dial, were layered onto the mil-spec design.
On the new Khaki Field King Day-Date, the pie pan dial is gone, replaced by a flat plate finished with sunburst brushing that extends to a snailed outer ring. The black-on-white day and date discs are still exposed through a single curved aperture, stacked at 12:00.
However, the biggest change is the removal of the military time track, which has helped define the Khaki for nearly a century. The numerals are gone from the outer 60-second track as well, although the adjacent lume dots remain.
The syringe hour and minute hands with elongated points are unchanged, as is the arrow seconds hand. All three are filled with green-emitting white Super-LumiNova.
