TIMEX x Carhartt Camper Watch in Grey
October 2018
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Hi, this is Alan. Thanks, as always for your interest, and for reading these pages. My contact information is below. Here is a nicely-done TIMEX Camper / Mk1 wristwatch in collaboration with Carhartt, using the TIMEX Original Camper as a base model. I obtained the watch in July 2019, very gently used in excellent condition, from someone in California. I'm not sure where he got it from, but all the paperwork is in Italian. Many of these pics were taken while the watch was still inside its foam cut-out, still in the box, where the plastic crown-stay was still in place. I hope you don't mind it, in the pics.
The metal tin is nice, elongated to hold an un-folded watch, with TIMEX and the Carhartt logo stamped into the front.
Carhartt is a privately-held, family owned American business, since 1989, "known for its work clothes, such as jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, vests, shirts, jeans, dungarees, fire-resistant clothing and hunting clothing." [1]
In the early 1990s, based on initiatives by two Germans who were selling authentic Carhartt workwear in Europe, "Carhartt Work in Progress" was launched which appears to be a semi-autonomous diffusion label of the parent company, as a sort of streetwear brand. In in addition to collaborating with TIMEX on this, and an earlier 2017 Acadia Field Watch, they have collaborated with Junya Watanabe, BAPE, Comme des Garcons, others.
Compare the Carhartt WIP hooded jacket above, and the hooded coat below more typical of "classic Carhartt" workwear, and you'll see the two garments almost occupy different universes.
The color choice is really nice. A grey resin case is used, with grey strap (slightly more bluer than the case) but additionally the dial has the 13-24 in grey, and the hands are also grey (both of these elements are generally white.) This gives a kind of elegance to the appearance.
This watch is warranted by TIMEX Italy (timex.it) and is warranted for two years (isn't the usual one year?)
There is a place you are supposed to send the watch to, if it needs service, a firm named Orotecnica, in a city called Abbiategrasso.
Orotecnica appears to be a Milan-based company that has been contracted to provide for the repair of TIMEX watches under warranty.
As I mentioned, this was purchased from someone in California, and unless this person traveled to Europe to buy this watch, I wonder if this is the standard for this particular watch. Maybe Carhartt WIP, being more "international" than just plain regular Carhartt, wanted to have a more robust warranty, in order to sell the watch in international markets? Does anyone know? I've never seen this timex.it card in any TIMEX box.
The standard imprint of the Camper case, but in grey. The 56 indicates factory production August 2018, though the watch did not go on sale until early October 2018.
Large file gives a good look at the grey 13-24 printed numerals, and the grey hands (all of which are generally white).
[Not my watch, I don't have this one, but for completeness, I will include pic of an earlier (2017) TIMEX Carhartt WIP wristwatch, a field watch model name Acadia. Seems like it came with green and black straps.]
Here's a 1990s "barn jacket" from Carhartt, on Etsy, quite worn. They still wanted sixty bucks for it.
Front of that previously shown guarantee card.
