We’re not shy about being Bravo Company fans. The Wisconsin-based veterans certainly know how to make a bombproof AR. But this BCM product is different…
Bravo Company just announced a limited re-release of its Mk15 Timepiece. There will only be 200 examples of each color, so act fast if you want to score one for yourself!
Bravo Company Mk15 Specs & Features
Specs
- Movement: 5-jewel quartz movement by Ronda
- Case Material: 316L stainless steel, satin finish
- Case Width: 43 mm
- Case Thickness: 12 mm
- Lug Width: 24 mm
- Crystal: Sapphire, anti-reflective coating
- Water Resistance: 20 ATM
- Battery: CR2016
- MSRP: $449
Features
- Limited run of 600 watches
- Swiss movement and a sapphire crystal
- Ships with a metal bracelet and a NATO strap
Prices accurate at time of writing
Prices accurate at time of writing
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This 20-ATM (200 meters of water resistance) watch is built for hard knocks, just like BCM’s firearms. It’s not meant for padded display cases and special occasions.
At the heart of the Mk15 is a Swiss five-jewel quartz movement by Ronda. Jewels act as bearing surfaces to reduce friction between moving components in a watch movement. People usually like to see at least 17 in an automatic watch, but there are far fewer moving pieces in a quartz watch, so don’t knock this one on that account. Many quarts watches don’t use jewels at all.
It’s a reliable movement powered by a CR2016 battery that should last several years.
As we expect from BCM, the Mk15 is built like a tank. The 43-millimeter case uses 316L stainless steel with an understated satin finish. Combined with the 60-minute unidirectional bezel, the watch stands 12 millimeters thick.
There are three face colors: black (Mod 1), blue (Mod 2), and olive-drab green (Mod 3). Bravo Company is offering 200 examples of each. The face, lit by Super-LumiNova X1 numerals and hands, sits under a sapphire crystal with two layers of anti-reflective coating.
All three come with a satin-finish 304 stainless steel bracelet and a two-piece NATO strap.
Bravo Company Manufacturing exists because its veteran founders wanted to build combat-ready firearms they’d trust on the mean streets of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan.
Well, mission accomplished. BCM rifles are some of the toughest and most reliable we’ve ever tested. Check out our Recce-16 MCMR review!
If the Mk15 watch lives up to that standard, it’ll be one heck of a timepiece.
Bravo Company lists an MSRP of $449 for the Mk15.
What do you think of the new BCM Mk15? Let us know below. For more combat-ready timepieces, check out our guide to the Best Tactical Watches!
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Having fallen down the rabbit hole of rugged watches, I emerge from under a rock to state some things I've learned.
Quartz is a far better movement than it's given credit for, precise, rugged, durable, and with solar charging, is literally a timepiece that could rate as a hereditary gift to your children. The one thing that makes this difficult is the market itself churning new designs to sell to jaded buyers who congregate online creating social heirarchy to anoint themselves as Tier One.
This results in too many slavishly copying the Holy Grail and marketers coming up with another version of an ancient Dive watch which isn't all that.
An interesting comparison - plenty of Quartz can be Dive certified, it's a matter of making the case water resistant to a certain depth with some consideration of temperature affecting it and not having any parts disconnect if knocked around. It would be a no brainer to make a "tough" watch rated 200m with a quartz movement for $59 retail.
There's no money in it, same as a duty grade handgun for $199 or a combat rifle for $599 - the M4 gets a expensive committee approved rail that jacks up the contract price. None of the low prices appeal to the human ego, tho. Things that are common don't make the owners look special when they pay 3x the price to get one.
While a previous generation was ok with owning a watch that could take a lickin and keep on tickin, we've abandoned simple principle to embrace image - all while underlining a lack of character in the process. Old men with Timexes could be said to have built America to it's zenith in the 1980's. Young men with multiple Swatches, not so much.
Stop looking for Brand or tribal association, look for technical features, and the real American wins. It needs a 200WR rating, if not Dive. It needs shock and dust resistance. It needs a durable case and strap that don't wear. It doesn't need a lot of buttons that control a complex menu of functions requiring the manual to operate. It doesn't need a new battery annually or even 5 years, solar fixed that 20 years ago, you could buy a used Ecodrive from that day and expect another 40 years life with it. Literally, Im doing it.
Watches aren't considered timepiece much now in our urban society, it's the outdoorsperson or military who depend on them, where their actions must be measured and coordinated by time. Suburban life, you can count on seeing dozens, from walking thru the kitchen, in the car, every bank on a corner, billboards, strip mall signs, entryways into buildings, work hallways, and the baleful glaring eye of the Worker's Paradise sitting on every desktop in America - a computer.
When you see someone wearing a watch with numbers on the dial, don't wonder if they still struggle with reading the time, like a five year old learning how. Wonder they only let time control them, as they use it to accomplish something, unlike so many now who let it slip by getting nothing done except to justify a paycheck that doesn't support them in the style they selfishly think they deserve. A watch with numbers on it was the tell of an earlier generation, when they fought wars for freedom, or marked the 50 hour work week to support their family in a home - and could. I've returned to that root, no longer wear pretentious style and even resort to a fabric band, not stainless. I don't need a $1,100 cell phone or a $400 a month family plan, either.
Goes to other things in life. When you see an older American adult male around - those left from the plague of Covid maladministration - consider why they still drive an older truck, wear an older style of watch, or live in their paid up bank free home. They aren't striving for bigger and better anymore - they arrived where they are comfortable, and earned it from the sweat of their brow. It's the world that keeps raising the bar and demanding more, and until younger men realize how they are being taken to the cleaners it won't stop.