Pilots Dressed in Gray: Tutima Launches Flieger with Slate Gray Dial
Glashütte, Germany-based Tutima has found success in adapting the vintage-look aesthetics of its military pilots’ watches into modern dress watches that are both contemporary in style and attractive in price. The latest example can be found in the new Tutima Flieger models, whose gradient slate-gray dials and tone-on-tone Horween leather strap make for a monochromatic timepiece that seamlessly ushers classical cockpit style into a boardroom or cocktail soirée setting.
The Tutima Flieger descends from military pilots’ watches.
The watch’s stainless steel case is a contemporary 41 mm in diameter, with an antireflective-treated sapphire crystal and a a threaded, tightly set crown. Under the crystal is the degradé-effect dial, which radiates elegantly from light gray in the center to nearly black at the edges. The classical, military-evocative numerals and indices are treated with Super-LumiNova and accompanied at 12 o’clock by the triangle with two dots that is a historical emblem of pilots’ watches (“Flieger” is German for “flyer” or “pilot,” and the modern Flieger watch family is descended from timepieces that Tutima has made for military pilots since the 1940s.) Also luminous-coated are the sharply tapered, diamond-shaped hands, which display the hour and minute while the orange-colored central seconds hand adds a splash of contrasting bright color as it sweeps over the gray dial. The date peeks out...
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