Black Watch (disambiguation)
The Black Watch is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, restructured from the regiment in 2006.
Black Watch may also refer to:
Military units
- 42nd Regiment of Foot, the official title of the Black Watch regiment from 1739 to 1881
- Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the official title of the regiment from 1931 to 2006
- The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
The arts
- Black Watch (play), a Scottish play written by Gregory Burke
- The Black Watch, a 1929 film directed by John Ford
- Black Watch (Shannara), a fictional military unit in Terry Brooks' epic fantasy Shannara series
- The Black Watch (band), a California-based indie rock band
- Band of the Black Watch, a high school marching band from Kenosha, WI
Others
- Black Watch Pass, a road pass in Bermuda named for the older Black Watch Well, at its northern entrance.
- Black Watch Well, a well in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, dug by soldiers of the Black Watch during the 19th Century.
- Black Watch (ship), a cruise ship operated by the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
- Black Watch (full rigged ship), a large sailing ship built in Windsor, Nova Scotia
- Black Watch (wristwatch), a wristwatch made by Sinclair Radionics
- Black Watch tartan, the tartan sett worn by the Black Watch regiments of Britain and the Commonwealth, also known as the "government" tartan
- The Blackwatch, a nickname formerly given to Everton F.C.
- Blackwatch, a secret special forces branch of the U.S. military in the video game Prototype
- Blackwatch, an elite special forces division in the video game Overwatch
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