Imperial Watch Armor

Description
The Imperial Watch Armor is worn by the watch captains, as well as palace guards. A watch captain is easily distinguished by the armor being white with gold inlay.

Notes: "Base Value" refers to the actual value without mercantile or disposition affecting it. "Max. Armor" refers to the maximum amount of armor the piece can provide, assuming maximum stats and skill.

Obtaining
The Imperial Watch Armor is more difficult to obtain than the regular Legion Armor as it is worn only by Watch Captains who usually can't be killed and can't be stolen or bought.

There are, however, certain cases where the shield can be obtained:
 * The Imperial Watch Shield can be obtained from the body of Adamus Phillida after you kill him with the Rose of Sithis in the Dark Brotherhood quest 'Permanent Retirement'.
 * The Imperial Watch Shield can also be obtained from palace guards. This almost certainly requires you to murder one and become a wanted fugitive however.

Unfortunatly, the rest of the armor is marked as not usable, apart from in one occasion. During the final stages of the main quest, in which you must take Martin Septim to see Chancellor Ocato, the Imperial City comes under attack. Once you leave the Imperial Palace, the two palace guards who were originally standing guard at the door will have been slaughtered by the Daedra. The Imperial Watch armour can be looted from these corpses, at least in the latest version of Oblivion. Unless you use a plugin to change this, you can slaughter as many palace guards as you wish and you will only be able to loot the shield from them. Most likely, the developers did this since upon dying, characters drop both the weapon and shield in hand.