Standard Issue Field Watch

The Standard Issue Field Watch is the model with which, in 2013, Cameron Weiss launched his company in Los Angeles. The first ten pieces, each requiring more than 300 hours of work, were finished and assembled by hand by Weiss himself in the family dining room: a 42 mm 316L steel case, a 1940s military-style dial with a small seconds subdial at 9 o'clock, and a hand-wound movement based on the ETA/Unitas 6497, renamed Caliber 1001 by the company. Case, dial, gaskets and sapphire crystal were already made in the United States, while the movement remained Swiss-based, finished and assembled in Los Angeles.

The success of the first pieces allowed the company to move beyond its home-based beginnings and, from 2015, into a dedicated production space. In 2018 the line expanded with a 38 mm version, designed for smaller wrists, fitted with the Caliber 1005 (based on the ETA 7001): the same look as the original model, a more compact case and some revised finishes on bezel and caseback.

Today "Standard Issue" remains the most accessible line in the Weiss catalogue, offered in several dial colours and, in the most recent versions, also with a date complication and in an automatic variant: a path that nonetheless starts from the 2013 manual field watch, the watch that gave rise to the entire manufacture.