The phrase "armed watch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a watch that is equipped with features for security or defense, such as a weapon or alarm system.
Example: "The security team relied on their armed watch to monitor the premises during the night."
Alternatives: "security watch" or "defensive watch".
The occupiers have posted lookouts and keep armed watch outside the office building where the Bundys have set up their headquarters, but there is no one for tens of miles around, except for members of the media who appear for press conferences called by the Bundys.
About a month and a half ago, they held a conference featuring Chris Simcox, founder of a volunteer armed watch group that intercepts illegal immigrants crossing into Arizona and turns them over to the authorities.
"We had our typical security, armed watches up on the quarter-deck and everything," he said today at the Naval Medical Center here.
He was threatened by the bosses of his hometown clan and lives under 24-hour armed police watch 'somewhere,' he says, 'in the north of Italy'.
The case, which The New York Times wrote about on Saturday, again put the spotlight on the Afghan Local Police, a force trained by American Special Operations forces and deployed as a lightly trained but armed neighborhood watch.
Armed guards watch the door during the press conference inside occupied building in — David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos April 11, 2014.
The arms "watch" what your real arms are doing and, using video analysis, try to pitch in when needed.
The wristwatch - the first wearable timepiece - only replaced the pocket watch at the beginning of the 20th Century (though we are told that Elizabeth I was presented with an "arm watch" by Robert Dudley in 1571).
Thus armed, he watched TV or ate breakfast.
Old, broken bricks are piled in front of a blown-up picture of a woman and a young boy with upraised arms watched by rifle-toting German soldiers.
To the line, "This is the sound of your heart hitting the floor," Peter Chu touches his chest and extends his arm, watching his hand drift like a leaf onto the floor.
