Christopher Ward Malvern C5 MK1 Stainless Steel C5SKS

Christopher Ward was founded in 2004 to sell its watches directly online, and the Malvern collection followed a year later. The MK1 keeps things plain: stick hands and baton-and-dot markers under sapphire, in a case 10.8 mm thick that takes an 18 mm strap. The C5SWT is the same watch on a strap. When Christopher Ward redesigned the C5 Malvern Automatic as the MK III in 2017, the case grew to 39 mm and slimmed to 9.9 mm around a Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement, so the MK1 is the smaller and slightly thicker of the two.