Horological Meandering

Aquaracer1
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Some may remember my Flieger Frenzy

From about a year ago where I purchased a handful of these classic German pilot watches and chose which one I liked best. DEKLA, Archimede, LACO and Stowa… Due to quality, value, finishing, case thinness, presentation, quick delivery, superb customer service and over all bad-ass factor, the Stowa Flieger 40 won my heart. Alas, there *MAY* still be room to sharpen the pencil here. My ONLY gripe about the Stowa was the 40 mm case size and almost 49 mm lug to lug made it wear a bit too large on my 7 inch wrist and never fit quite properly. Enter the new LACO Ulm: 39 x 46 x 10 mm. So as compared to the Stowa one millimeter smaller case size, about 3 millimeter smaller lug to lug and .8 millimeters thicker than the Stowa. With a hand wound moment also. Everything else is here: Heat blued hands, matte black dial, legible Arabic numerals and 20 mm lug width to make strap changes with ease. Pretty close to the Stowa eh? BUT perhaps better fitment and wearability! I’m still mulling it over but may have to give it a shot. What do you think of this LACO Ulm 39 mm, especially from those that don’t have giant wrists?? Thanks for looking 🙂