Bremont Airco Mach 1 Showcase Review

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Greetings, and welcome to the world of Bremont. Today, I'll be your guide to the Bremont Airco Mach 1. 40 millimeters in stainless steel, this vintage inspired aviator's tribute timepiece, and the entire Bremont collection of premium British watches can be seen on our website, GovbergWatches.com. The Airco Mach 1 paying in name ohmage to the Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited, an early aeronautical British defense contractor. In form and detail, it pays ohmage to the type of ministry of defense standard issue watches given to British pilots in the immediate post-war 1940's period.

The look starts with the proportion of lugs to bezel, bezel to dial and even the material used in the strap, a somewhat aged minimally treated distressed calf's skin with a contrasting stitch, a flat profile, and an easily adjusted alternately satin finished and bevel polished pin buckle vintage in fashion. Also, easy to use on the fly, as hot/cold activity and inactivity change the size of the wrist. The strap is close coupled to the case flanks, creating a highly integrated look and the case is comprised of Bremont's signature tryptic modular construction, with case back, diamond-like carbon encoded scratch resistant tonal variation in the center case, which also bears the case band and the tapered lugs.

Finally, capped by a hardened bezel, the metal itself is treated to achieve a surface hardness of 2,000 vicars, so tryptic is not just a modular style of construction, but actually a special treatment of the steel used. Now, the dial features a railroad style rehaut dramatically sloped down from the stepped bezel. The white on black printing with red intermediates is both highly legible and true to period detailing from the 1940s. The case, lug tops, bezel, and case flanks are predominantly satin finished. Again, in a practical aviation inspired fashion to minimize glare in a cockpit environment. Inboard, the dial is fully luminescent. The Arabic numerals in super lumen of the paint glowing brilliantly at night as orange tip to syring style hands trace the minutes and the hours with a vivid orange triangular tipped second's hand to make for easy reading of this micro metric.

Now, the watch features two refinements, stop seconds and a quick set date. By pulling the crown to extremity, the balance, the heartbeat of the watch is halted. The second's hand will stop and you can synchronize precisely to a reference time. There's also a quick set for the discrete date. While it's historic forbearers to not have a date, of course the Airco Mach 1 features this practical information and in the intermediate setting position, the crown can rapidly correct the date should the watch run down.

Now, while it is an aviation inspired timepiece, this 38-hour automatic Swiss chronometer grade movement is protected by 10 ATM or 100 meter water resistance, so it is approved for the seaplane pilots among our armchair aviators. Now, the timepiece with a Swiss certified COSC movement is nevertheless designed and assembled entirely in Britain, so a combination of Swiss precision and British watch making savoir faire. You can see this historically inspired Bremont Airco Mach 1 and the entire collection of Bremont premium watches on our website, GovbergWatches.com.