The Flieger Klassik 40 Handwinding - in WHITE

From STOWA -

Courtesy of STOWA

There are fliegers, and then again, there are fliegers that are (in their own way) flights of fancy.  Please forgive the alliteration, but once again the team at STOWA have taken a standard idea that we all feel we know and understand, and given it a little tweak.  

We all know that pilot's watches are always, every time, 100% black dialed... usually ; )

Now I am certainly someone who appreciates tradition.  My high school soccer team never made it past the first round of the high school playoffs each of my three years on the varsity, while our club team (made up of EXACTLY the same players) made it to the "Final Four" of he Northern Ohio state championship 2 out of 3 years.  Sometimes tradition gets so embedded in us that it truly holds us back ; )  

But not so for the STOWA Flieger Classic Handwinding.  This is the Shit That Killed Elvis!  You can get a black dialed flinger anywhere - even from STOWA.  But this?  This is a bit special.

Here are the pertinents, straight from STOWA -

Case

Diameter:

40,00mm

Height:

10,20mm automatic and 9.20 mm in handwinding

Strap width:

20,00mm

Lug-to-Lug size:

48,60mm

Waterproof:

up to 5ATM 

Weight:

70 gr. (leather strap), about 120 gr. (metal bracelet)

Materiality

Case:

Stainless steel, fine matt, ground by hand

Dial:

white colored, black printed, Superluminova C3

Hands:

black matte, Superluminova C3 or real temperature blued steel hands

Movement

Caliber:

ETA 2824-2 automatic or 2804-2 handwinded

Mechanism:

mechanical, automatic or hand wound

Specific features:

screwed case back, date, hands and numerals on dial with Superluminova C3