And you said the recession was making it hard to find a good watch. Well fear not, friends. The Praesto Fliegeruhr (Whatever. Just call it the “flying hour” or something) will cost $360 for a pre-order and will be shipped around November when the custom watches are shipped to the manufacturer. Plus you get a t-shirt!
The Praesto runs a Miyota automatic movement with a small seconds at 5 o’clock and has SuperLuminova on the face and hands. It is water resistant to 20 ATM and is 44mm in diameter. I think the choice to add an auto movement alone makes me really like what they’re doing here.
The company has promised me some more hot photos but feel free to drool over this one for now.
“Fliegeruhr” is “pilot watch”. Makes sense to me.
Time for new Germanisms! :-)
Miyota 8245? WTF?
You better wait until you get pictures of the real watch.
The rendering of the back of the watch contradicts the description at least twice and the description on the rendering of the face makes at least one contradiction.
Aristo makes just as nice of a watch, if not better, for about $50 more.
“will be shipped around November when the custom watches are shipped to the manufacturer” Shipped TO the manufacturer. So who made these?
Hey, didn’t you miss something? Why the clutter of the “seconds,” demonation around the outside of the main dial when it has no large sweep second hand but has the smaller one located at 5 o’clock. Useless clutter which serves absolutely no purpose what so ever…poor design just for the sake of more glow in the dark….cummon!
The brand has a forum where you can all take part in.
http://watchandclockforum.com/viewforum.php?f=122
The design and specs came from the members of the forum.
The rendering was selected as part of a design contest in which the members of the Praesto forum selected a winner.
After the design was selected the specs were laid out. This is why there are differences between the two stated specs.
The company also is being clear about where these are made.
They are not claiming they are made in Germany.
Also the company has their own in house manufacturing.
They have several years of experience on the OEM ODM side of the business and decided to finally have a brad of their own.
Future models will most likely come from input from the members of the Praesto forum as well. So if you don’t like this watch and you know you can do better. Come on over and show them what you’ve got.