Frankfurt gmt time zone1/17/2024 ![]() A small note: the bezel begins moving IMMEDIATELY when the crown fully unscrews, perhaps it would be more ideal if the bezel crown would have an additional position, to first unscrew it and then pull it out for setting the bezel? Small and insignificant issue. The bezel, to allow 1/2 hour increments, is a 48-click bezel. Since the GMT hand is a 24-hour hand, setting it means it will jump in one hour increments. The 4 o'clock crown operates the movement (setting time, date and GMT hand, and of course winding the watch), while the top (2 o'clock) crown rotates the inner bezel. ![]() ![]() The crown guars leave enough room for the onion crowns to be easily gripped when tucked away, and unscrewing and operating both crowns is easy and pleasing even for big fingers. The large classic onion crowns (this time with an embossed "L" from the Laco logo) are securely protected by the crown guards that seamlessly come out of the case at 2 and 4 o'clock, respectively, in a very pleasing curve. Cute, unobtrusive and subtle way to add a fun element. The counterweight is dark grey, so it doesn't visually add clutter to the watch and remains inconspicuous unless you really pay attention to it. The 6 o'clock date window is cut with a step that adds a little depth, and the date disc is white with black numerals, which fits the watch well and makes a nice symmetry vertically with the triangle and two dots on top (black date disc would look off here under the dark grey dial).Ī small detail that adds a little playfulness to the watch is the seconds hand counterweight, which is shaped like a military jet airplane. The matte dark background of the dial is smooth under the naked eye and completely matte, but macro shots reveal a very fine grain texture that helps reduce glare and make the dial matte grey. This darker variant is much more legible for my personal taste. For me personally (I've seen that variant), it makes the watch too light toned, and the contrasts get lost. If you opt for the "grey" variant, you can expect the dial to be light grey. The watch I got is the "schwarz" variant (Laco also offers a "grau"), but the dial of the watch isn't black, it's dark grey (lighter than the black portion of the bezel, but darker than the bottom light grey portion of the bezel). If you can wear a 42mm Flieger, this isn't a big stretch, because the inner bezel visually reduces the size of the watch a little. But then again, Fliegers were always on the larger size. It is a hefty 43mm wide, 49.5mm lug to lug, and 13mm thick. Perhaps 6.5 inches (16.5cm), if you can pull off an oversized watch. This is a large watch, no mistake, and I don't see it fitting anyone with a wrist smaller than 7 inches / 17.5cm. And this is exactly what Laco has managed to do here: they took a Flieger and made it new, fresh and modern, while not failing to make it unmistakably a descendant of the Flieger. I always appreciate when car manufacturers can line up their cars from the past century, and you can see precisely how their car design has EVOLVED from one iteration to the next, and how naturally each new generation is still clearly identifiable as a descendant of the models past (Germans in particular are excellent at this, with brands like Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Volkswagen clearly running a design identity that makes their cars unique.). There is no way to miss the lineage of this watch, in every respect it feels like a modernized Flieger, showing off the design cues from half a century ago (the triangle and two dots replacing the "12" marker, heat blued sword hands, onion crown and that fantastic dark sandblasted finish of the case), while somehow marrying that venerable design with modern elements completely seamlessly (the added rotatable inner bezel with a slope, modernized case shape and those beautifully executed crown guards).
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