The fifth edition of WatchTime New York, America’s luxury watch event, is finally upon us, kicking off tonight at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. Several of our record 37 sponsoring watch brands have already offered sneak peeks at all-new timepieces making their U.S. debut at the show, and today we present one more. Germany’s Mühle-Glashütte, which marks its own 150th anniversary in 2019, has just announced a limited edition honoring 80 years of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). Here’s a quick look at the new AOPA AeroSport Limited Edition.
Mühle Glashütte’s AeroSport Limited Edition was co-designed with pilots.
The watch, designed with the input of AOPA pilots, has a 42.5-mm stainless steel case with a screw-down crown, an anti-glare sapphire crystal, and a classical coin-edge rotating bezel. Emblazoned on the bezel is a triangular pip that can be used either as a fixed GMT indicator or to calculate the length of flight times. The jet black dial features contrasting white details including the hour markers, hands, and an AOPA logo above the 6 o’clock position. Red quarter-hour marks and a red tip on the minute hand adds a dash of color. The rotor features a rotor decorated with an AOPA anniversary logo.
The AOPA Aerosport contains a self-winding Sellita SW-200-1 caliber with Mühle’s own modifications, including the woodpecker-neck regulation device developed at its headquarters in Glashütte, Germany, and storing a p...