If you reach this point in the guide and still find yourself wanting more, you’re in good company. As Christopher Ward has grown from a small internet start‑up into a well‑established modern brand, the number of places you can learn about it has grown too.

For anyone looking to disappear a little further into the world of CW - designs, stories, history, trivia, deep dives and the occasional hot take - here’s a curated set of places worth exploring.

Christopher Ward website

It might feel like stating the obvious, but the CW site is full of genuinely good material once you look beyond the shop pages.

The Our Story section gives a thoughtful overview of how the company began; the JJ Calibres piece is essential reading for anyone curious about CW’s modular-complication era; and the Owner’s Manual Archive is handy when you want to check details on older (or long‑discontinued) models. A few manuals are missing, but it’s still an excellent resource.

Useful links:

• Our Story: www.christopherward.com/loupe-magazine/article?cid=our-story

• JJ Calibres: www.christopherward.com/jj-calibres.html

• Owner’s Manuals: www.christopherward.com/owners-handbooks.html

• GMT watches: www.christopherward.com/loupe-magazine/article?cid=gmt

• Calibre SH21: www.christopherward.com/loupe-magazine/article?cid=sh21

• Chronometer vs chronograph: www.christopherward.com/loupe-magazine/article?cid=chronometer-chronograph

• Moonphase watches: www.christopherward.com/loupe-magazine/article?cid=moonphase

Christopher Ward Forum

Founded almost as soon as CW arrived online in 2005, the Christopher Ward Forum remains the most knowledgeable and surprisingly comprehensive place to read about the brand. I’ve been a member for most of my time collecting CW, and it’s still the first place I go when I want to check a detail, compare generations or just see what other owners think of a new release.

CW now owns the forum but they are definitely ‘hands-off’. It has the same independent, slightly quirky personality it always had. It’s lively in the best way: opinionated at times, but always friendly, welcoming and filled with people who know the catalogue inside‑out.

If you have a question, someone will almost certainly have the answer and probably a few photos to illustrate it. It’s also one of the most relaxed corners of the internet. The atmosphere is calm, the conversations are thoughtful and there’s (virtually) no antagonism or keyboard‑warrior noise.

It feels like a small community of locals: a place to spend time with like‑minded folk, whether you’re reading quietly in the background or joining in with the chat.

Visit:
www.christopherwardforum.com

Christopher Ward Archive

If you want to know everything — every reference, every obscure military special, every early dial variation, every movement, every forgotten limited edition — this is where you go.

Kip McEwen’s Christopher Ward Archive is an astonishing piece of work: an encyclopaedia of the brand built model by model. It’s the place you open intending to check one detail and then find yourself still browsing an hour later.

Visit:
https://archive.christopherwardforum.com/cwarchive

Facebook

There are (at least) two lively Facebook communities worth joining if you enjoy seeing what other CW owners are wearing, buying, trading or debating. Both are active, friendly and full of everyday chat, wrist shots and quick-fire questions that don’t always need a full forum thread..

Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CWAficionados/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1879355139014914