This is the Fortis B-42 Official Cosmonauts Chronograph watch complete with Stainless Steel Strap. It is model number 638.10.11 M and carries a 2 year offical guarantee. It has the following features:
Movement: Automatic Valjoux 7750; 13 1/4''; day/date indication; 30-minute counter at 12 o'clock position; 12-hour counter at 6 o'clock position; 25 jewels; 28,800 semi-vibrations per hour; Incabloc shock absorber.
Unidirectional turning bezel
Case: Stainless steel; brushed finish; black uni-directional turning diver bezel with 120 grid; tachometer scale on dial flange; screw-down solid steel caseback; water-resistant to 200m (20 ATM); sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides; steel crown with FORTIS logo
Dial: Black with Arabic numerals
Individually numbered
Water-resistant to 200 m / 20 bar
Attachment: Stainless steel brushed finish bracelet with double screwed links; also available with padded leather strap. For better fit and security, a stainless steel bar slides through attachment and lugs, and is screwed to outside of case
Special Features: 42 mm case diameter; neon-orange function hands; numerals, hands & indices coated with Superluminova; colored triangles on dial guide day and date adjustment; individually numbered
Flightstore are an official and authorised dealer for all Fortis watches and we are delighted to present them to our aviation customers. All our watches carry the Fortis worldwide 2 year guarantee and after we are pleased to have them back in our portfolio.
For pilots, who spend their lives above the clouds, the equipment for their everyday flying life must be useful and easily readable. The worldwide use of squadron watches, in civil and military aviation and by pilots of aerobatic formation teams, is a proof that the FORTIS watches fulfill their exacting criteria. Good legability, robustness, user friendliness, functionality and water resistance have led to the award, in 2004, of "European Aviation watch of the Year" for the Fortis Flieger and Pilot models.
Founded in Grenchen, Switzerland in 1912 Fortis has always led the field in innovation and quality. It is definitively the watchmaker of the extreme. Research and development, continuous and rigorous tests, innovations are daily challenges at Fortis manufactory. What other watchmaker could use the Fortis company's motto " Fortis, Professional Space Watches" !? In 1926 they presented the worlds first self winding wristwatch in series production, the legendary Harwood and in 1943 Fortis was among the range of Swiss brands with high technical expertise. Alongside the production of most precise mechanical Chronographs Fortis shows its excellence in presenting the first water-resistant wristwatches.
Deeply involved in the world of aviation and space Fortis takes part in the development of a new time signal in co-operation with the German University of Stuttgart, Daimler- Chrysler, the German DLR and the European ESA. Fortis won a lot of awards and broke numerous extreme conditions world records. Fortis watch is essentially a pilot watch.
Fortis have developed very accurate and reliable watches in cooperation with the Russian space program, each cosmonaut-in-training at Star City has received a Fortis watch since 1994. The watches have been to space over and over again. They've stayed for months on the space station, dutifully telling time and waking slumbering cosmonauts with their integrated mechanical alarms. Rapidly becoming a space program fixture, Fortis is involved with the International Space Station, too. The collection includes the Spacematic Alarm and five "Official Cosmonauts" models that feature mechanical movements with automatic winding and either the Fortis Caliber F2001 (integrated mechanical alarm), the Valjoux caliber 7750 or the ETA caliber 2836-2. All are multi-functional with cases of micro-sanded steel and black dials with tritium-coated hands and markers.
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