This past fall, Glashütte-based Tutima revitalized its Grand Flieger Airport series, unveiling four new models in two new colorways. The expansion, which includes two new Grand Flieger Airport Chronographs and an additional two Grand Flieger Airport Automatics, breathes new life into the 1940s-pilot-watch-inspired collection, promising to bring ?traditional reliability and legibility with a new bidirectional rotating bezel and red marking point.?

The new colorways are a military green and a deep blue, with both dials featuring a dégradé effect for both the chronograph and automatic versions.

Grand Flieger Airport Chronograph

The Grand Flieger Airport Chronograph has a 43-mm brushed steel case in the vintage-inspired Flieger style. Among its historically informed features are the slightly curved lugs, the onion-inspired crown, and the understated pump pushers, all drawing their influence from 1940s German chronographs. The model is strapped on either a steel three-link bracelet or a textile strap, both secured via a folding clasp.
Overhanging the dial is one of the series? signature traits, its bidirectional rotating bezel marked with a 60-minute scale and topped with a red dot at its top, a feature that takes direct inspiration from some rare, war-era pilots’ chronographs. The bezels’ coloring matches that of the dial, either dark green or blue.

Under a domed sapphire crystal, the dial sports a dégradé effect and is relatively str...