Azimuth Blanchard my initial entrance into the watch design/building world...
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Back in 2006 I was really into flying, and on my cross country outings I would always look down at my Speedy to time when I had to switch tanks or when my waypoint was coming up. Or how long I had been flying. Yeah I know, why look at my watch when I have the G1000 in front of me. I guess I'm old school... And I looked at it as part of my check list.
Unfortunately, getting older wasn't helping much with my eyes so I decided to look for a bigger (easier to read watch).
You see, now-a-days you can throw a propeller and hit a Fleiger watch, but back in the early 2000's there weren't that many companies making large Fleigers. One I found was Azimuth, and with them I started a new hobby…
I designed the dial based on an original example I had and Azimuth provided the rest. A few months later I had 50 Navigator (B-Uhr) watches and a great back up timer for flying. Anyway I though you guys might enjoy the origin story of the future Blanchard Watch Co.
A few specs on the watch we built:
48mm case built by Azimuth
Using the ETA 2801-2
25.5 mm movement size
Manual wind.
Enjoy!
Look Forward to seeing the new watch.
No lume shot? The flieger is all about the lume. So, did you lume only the even numbers on the inner circle, not the odd numbers, as was done in the original WW2 fliegers?
Hey, yeah trying to get better at this as I go... already bought magnifier for closeup shots. This was my first entrance into watch making so I built it as a tool first and foremost... never really wore it outside the plane (way to big at 47mm) Wish UA-cam would allow me to post pics in reply section...
Why is it your channel doesn't have Categories? Such as Video's.
What Jubilee that is ? Steinhart own ?
Yes, bought directly from Steinhart... personally its the best bracelet they have... I don't like how the Oyster bracelet end links end.
@@RobertBlanchard Thanks.