CUSTOMER CARE E
Graham Walker proudly wearing his engraved Battle of Britain
commemorative watch
the sunshine and doing a little gentle driving instruction. At 72, the former serviceman gets fully involved in island life, including taking part in the annual Remembrance Day Parade. Son Tony, living back in the UK,
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saw the Christopher Ward C5 Battle of Britain (70) 6B/159 commemorative watch in the autumn edition of this magazine and knew straight away that his father would love to own one. Why? While he is not a Battle of
Britain veteran, Graham served his time flying in both the RAF and the Army Air Corps – not as a pilot, but as an observer and researcher. Tony knew that the C5 Battle of Britain watch would resonate with him. Graham tells his story: “I was in the Royal Air Force, but I moved to the Army in time to go and play silly buggers in Egypt, Suez in fact. When we came back the unit I was in did all sorts of nonsense. I did fly myself but never did a full training course. It was in fact a weird unit – all the orders were typed in black ink on black paper if you get my meaning.”
He goes on: “I did other trips abroad and on one occasion read in the The Telegraph that the Minister
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raham Walker takes it easy on the Cayman Islands, whence he has retired, enjoying
The
Corps, Graham reverted back to the RAF and became an electronics engineer.
strange tale of the electronics engineer
Christopher Ward’s customer services team – lead by the indomitable Wizzie the Wiz – uncovers fascinating customer stories. This time she has found an electronics engineer with a secret past.
The only problem with Tony’s plan to send the Christopher Ward watch to Graham was the timing – he wanted the gift to be engraved and to arrive in Cayman for the Remembrance Parade, and that was only a matter of days away. With a story like that, what could the customer services team do? Wizzie the Wiz, aka customer services head Wera Mettes, had the watch engraved double quick and couriered the watch to the Cayman Islands, courtesy of Christopher Ward.
The watch made it in time, and as the photograph shows, Graham now wears it with pride.
“A good watch deserves all the publicity it can get – up until everybody is wearing one.” Graham Walker
of War was saying there were absolutely no British forces in Oman. I realised I was confused, as I thought that this was where I was at the time. “Publicity about a visit to Algeria would have made negotiations with France over Britain's entry into the Common Market difficult, so we apparently never went there.” After his stint in the Army Air
Now a big fan of Christopher
Ward watches, Graham says: “A good watch deserves all of the publicity it can get – up until everybody is wearing one.”
Christopher Ward donates 5% of the retail value of every C5 Battle of Britain (70) 6B/159 to the RAF Benevolent Fund.
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