Aviator

AUTOMATIC DUAL TIME, TITANIUM & PINK GOLD
Six months of hard work to make the Aviator
a reality. The aviation industry always had big technological
needs. Research for materials and reliability
of the instrumentation constitute two major axes
than directed one of the most impressive technical
evolutions that humanity knew.
It makes no surprise that the two worlds of aviation
and watch-making has common synergies. The
exchange of discoveries and skills being profitable
to both worlds.
So the watchmakers benefited from aerospace
researches which allowed them to appropriate materials
such as the titanium, carbon fibers and ceramics.
On the other hand, watch-making proposes
for more than half a century watches, certainly
intended for the airmen, but who are very often
only the fruit of an adaptation in terms of legibility
or handiness.
If The Aviator is the first watch to supply an indication
specifically useful for the piloting of aircrafts,
it is certainly note a fate. Yeslam BinLadin, her inventor
indeed adds up more than 3500 hours of
flight time on various types of jet. Thanks to his
experience and his watch-making activity, he saws
that a gap exists of what is on offer in the watchmaking
industry.
And so was born the idea to create “The Aviator”,
first watch able to calculate the true airspeed of an
airplane.
The speed indicated by the instrumentation of a
jet (I.A.S Indicated Air Speed) does not correspond
to its real speed (True Air Speed). This measure
is modified by the height and the temperature at
which travels the plane because they have a direct
influence on the density of the air. This has naturally a significant incidence on the duration of a flight
with all the evident consequences which it can
have for organization and navigation.
Naturally today's airplanes are all equipped with
integrated flight computer which calculates
exactly the true airspeed of an airplane. However,
the electronic breakdowns of the instrumentation
do not constitute an extremely rare
phenomenon. Furthermore, it can also be useful
to anticipate - even before being on board
- a schedule of flight. Here were two of the
main reasons that drove to the development of
a mechanism of bi directional rotating bezels allowing
to perform in an instant this calculation.
For that purpose, it was necessary to create a
complex graduation, this one not being linear.
The result is an international patent.
Most of the existing rotating bezels are invented
for divers, hence their rotation is unidirectional
and rotate 360°.
For The Aviator, it was necessary to imagine
a new construction whereby the bezel of The
Aviator align themselves exactly in front of the
graduations. The rotation is bidirectional and
has an angular limit to its movement.
The set can be disassembled entirely to guarantee
an irreproachable maintenance. The sobriety
of the aspect of The Aviator hides the big complexity
of its case. Aerospace industry materials
such as titanium and ceramic were used.
As usual at Yeslam, dials are produced in a single
block in the heart of the workshop of the brand
according to a unique and exclusive process.

AUTOMATIC DUAL TIME, TITANIUM & PINK GOLD
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In the gold and Titanium versions, the dial is an
openwork letting appear disks and cogs of the
mechanism of big date. The motive evoking the
fans of a reactor and is decorated with “côtes de
Genève” in helixes by the technicians of the brand
for this model.
The luxurious colour anthracite of these is obtained
by treatment with electrolysis in black rhodium
made possible by the recent opening of a workshop
of galvanoplasty.
The construction staged bezel, dial and movement
give to The Aviator the balanced perspectives evoking
the volume and the depth of the engines of
jets.
Available in various versions, this model in competition
contains a mechanical automatic movement
TT651 Based on ETA 2892-A2. It indicates hours,
minutes, seconds and a second time zone (hours
and minutes) at 6 and a Grande Date at 12.
This patented converter system IAS/TAS is based
on a unique mechanism with a bidirectional rotative
bezel.
The case 44mm in titane and rose gold 750 is
equipped with a crystal sapphire with anti reflective
treatment and has a 5ATM water resistance.
The dial is engraved in one piece trough an
exclusive machining process. Strap in Calf with
folding clasp.