Introducing the Brellum Pilot Power Gauge Chronometer
The Swiss brand Brellum has introduced a new range of pilot watches inspired by aircraft instrumentation called the PILOT Power Gauge Chronometer. That name is fairly descriptive of what you?re getting in this watch, set alongside a three register chronograph. All the usual pilot watch hallmarks are present and accounted for, and the addition of a chronograph falls inline with something of a trend we?ve seen, most recently in the Laco Munchen Chrono. While there isn?t anything particularly unexpected here, it gets the details you want in a pilot watch right, and offers some handsome, if expected, dial colors in the process.
Deriving design inspiration from the instrumentation within airplanes is nothing new when it comes to pilot watches, from the literal interpretations of Bell & Ross, to the conceptual of IWC. Brellum is using the archetypes of the genre within a round case with a box sapphire crystal in a way that takes less direct, and more subtle inspiration from the instruments.Â
The dial features prominent Arabic numerals in satin finishing across the dial, with the classic triangle and two dots at 12 o?clock. Registers for the timing minutes, hours and running seconds appear at 12, 6, and 9 o?clock respectively, signalling the use of the venerable Valjoux 7750 within. The registers themselves are sunken into the dial with a radial texture to differentiate themselves from the rest of the dial, and feature a horizontal centering line at their waists, ...
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