Christopher Ward Malvern C5 MK1 Stainless Steel C5SWT

Christopher Ward was founded in 2004 to sell its watches directly online, and the Malvern collection arrived a year later. The MK1 keeps things plain: stick hands, baton-and-dot markers and a sapphire crystal over a 10.8 mm-thick case that takes an 18 mm strap. The C5SKS is the same watch on a steel bracelet. 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, slightly thicker earlier version.