Flieger Friday: Pilot Watches with Full Lume Dial

One of the most important feature for a pilot watch is the presence of bright lume for reading the time in darkness or poorly lit environment While majority of the pilot watches use SuperLuminova on the dial and hands, there are few watches which reverse this process by applying the entire dial with SuperLuminova and making the hands and numbers in either black color or with different color shade of luminous paint In past, Heuer manufactured sports watches with full lume dial, and recently Muhle Glashuette, Chronoswiss, and Fortis.

During the WWII, Laco manufactured the famous 55mm flieger with the large Durowe D5 pocket watch movement In 2005 Vollmer merged Aristo and his own family business to form the Aristo Vollmer GmbH Currently Aristo offers low-priced pilot and sports watches based on the Swiss ETA and Sellita automatic movements.

Their annual output of 150,000 watches makes them one of the largest watch manufacturers in Germany The 6872-5 Series Tante JU watch features Superluminova coated dial with anthracite numbers and markers, and black hands. . Source