Bauhaus Aviation Pilot Automatic 42mm
- Dark green dial with beige, night-glow numerals/indices, luminous hands
- Swiss automatic movement SW 200, 26 jewels
- Sapphire glass
- stainless steel case Ø 42mm x h 12mm, waterproof up to 5 bar
- Made in Germany, own production in Ruhla
New! Bauhaus Aviation Pilot Automatic
Delivered with an additional RIOS1931 aviator leather strap "Nature", available in light brown, dark brown or black - if you only want the watch with the original leather strap, the price will be reduced accordingly. (Selection above)
An impressive pilot's watch that is easy to read - made in Germany from Ruhla Thuringia - with a Swiss premium movement!
Solid watch case made of brushed stainless steel with a diameter of 42mm, a height of 12mm, a lug width of 22mm and a distinctive, easy-to-grip crown. Sapphire glass!
Typical pilot's watch: the minutes play the main role! These are clearly legible on the outer scale, while the hours can be read smaller inside. Date at "6".
The Sellita SW200 is a round caliber with a mechanical lever movement and automatic winding. Thanks to the 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour, the second hand runs very smoothly. The movement has an hour, minute and large second hand as well as a date display. The winding stem has three different positions: the first is for manual winding, the second for quick correction of the date and the third is for setting the hands. The time can be set precisely thanks to the stop-seconds function.
The Sellita SW200 also has a ball-bearing rotor with high winding efficiency, 26 jewels and a 38-hour power reserve.
Sellita was founded in 1950 by Pierre Grandjean in La Chaux-de-Fonds in western Switzerland. The high demand for Swiss watches during the economic miracle years also boosted the business of the former reassembly company, which manufactured standard calibers according to individual customer requirements. Sellita did not yet have its own production facility at this time. Even then, Pierre Grandjean specialized in watch movements whose construction was similar to ETA, and continued to optimize the assembly of the watch movements over the next few years. Inventions such as the laser welding process for attaching the hairspring to the balance wheel, for example, come from Sellita.
Sellita SW200
When the patent for the ETA caliber 2824-2 expired in 2003 and ETA also announced that it would be restricting deliveries to third-party customers, Pierre Grandjean decided that Sellita had to take a new direction: instead of just assembling the individual movement components as before, the most important parts of the watch movements should also be manufactured in-house. Grandjean entrusted his then operations manager Miguel Garcia with the implementation of this project. He then arranged for the construction of a production facility for replicas of all components of ETA automatic calibers such as the 2824-2, which was then launched on the market shortly afterwards as the Sellita SW 200-1. The plan worked and the replicas of the ETA movements were so popular that Sellita quickly reached its capacity limits. In the next few years, additional production facilities were built to meet the increasing demand for the popular and high-quality Sellita movements.
The Sellita subsidiary Technicor, for example, specializes in the decoration and mechanical finishing of watch movement components and has the largest fully automatic electroplating plant in Switzerland. Today, Sellita is the second largest manufacturer of mechanical watch movements in Europe. The replicas are in no way inferior to the ETA originals in terms of quality and are available to both large and small manufacturers. Sellita attaches great importance to being independent and not just specializing in supplying certain brands. Since Sellita also supplies competing brands, discretion is important to the company in order to protect the interests of its customers.
Delivered with leather strap. With case & certificate.
