Basel 2011: Stowa Flieger Chronograph...very nice!

Love it!!

I do too!

count me in!

Can't decide which is better, the front, or the back of this one !
The dial is perfect with all of the thin markers, matching thin
second hand, and neat blue hands. While the movement along
with all of it's decoration on back comes close to stealing the
show also. Really IS very nice ! ..Thanks again !

Ummmm.....WOW just doesn't cut it.....

Very cool!! I LOVE fliegers and Stowa has done a nice job with that one. Not usually a fan of flieger/chrono hybrid but I like that one alot.

How about some history on the 12 o'clock marker, the triangle and two dots...?

Anomaly wrote:

How about some history on the 12 o'clock marker, the triangle and two dots...?

According to what I read (from Stowa):

In the past, sometimes only the indices, but not the numbers themselves have been illuminated. Therefore the twelve o'clock position had to be marked differently in order to be clearly distinguishable. This was sometimes accomplished by two dots next to the index. Alternatively a triangle was used.

The B-Uhr is obviously a case of 'over-engineering': All known ways to help for orientation in the dark have been used: The numbers are illuminated, there is a triangle and it is accompanied by two dots.

Not all military and Fliegeruhren have the triangle. In Germany the B-Uhr, but not the Fliegerchronographen from Hanhart and Tutima. In Great Britain the triangle was introduced with the second model of the Mark 11. Until then, two dots have been used to highlight the twelve o'clock position. They are still used today. In the USA a different kind of luminous material is used for the twelve o'clock index.

Here is more from WUS: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f7/b-uhr-question-triangle-12-a-115376-post724789.html#post724789

Good stuff Mark, thanks...

Fabulous Watch! Gonna look into that one for sure.