This Monday I finally recieved this Stowa Flieger watch, now also available with a date window. Some puristic purists believe this to be an illegitimate change of style as the original Flieger watches did not have this. I agree with them and yet I am very grateful, this watch displays the date as I regularly need it !
As you can only order the Stowa watches on the internet, I was very pleasantly surprised how nicely finished and well executed this watch is. The pictures do not show the lovely coloured hands which are blued and amply filled with Superluminova that gives the watch a spectacular glow at night.
The value for money relation is absolutely excellent. Compared to other Flieger watches, this one is fairly small (diameter 40 mm), but once again: although this in not classical, I like it because of my slim wrist. In former times these watches were tied around the thigh, so that the size differences did not matter that much! But then they were about 60 mm wide.
Best regards and a nice weekend to everyone who´s not on call (like me),
anaesdoc
P.S. Do not be surprised by the date indicating "31". As this is no high-tech perpetual calendar I always advance the date on the last day of all months with less than 31 days in order to be ready for the first day of the new month.