Orologi Calamai isn’t a family identify within the trade, however this small Italian model has been producing intriguing, aeronautical-inspired watches since its founding in 2012. Sadly, MONOCHROME can’t cowl the complete array of small, impartial manufacturers on the market (we strive, consider me), however Orologi Calamai positively caught our eye, and we’ve coated them prior to now with the CR42 Chronograph and G50 MKIII Solotempo. The most recent GMT Automatico is a purposeful caller GMT with an understated fashion that’s greater than meets the attention.
Orologi Calamai blends two themes in its watches – Italy and aviation – and each case for the GMT Automatico is crafted from turbine metal from Panavia Twister fighter jets. That places real aviation historical past in your wrist. These fighters have been developed in a tri-national consortium with Italian, German and British engineering, and prototypes first flew in 1974. Firm founder Francesco Calamai has many years of acrobatic flying expertise, and his father flew in World Struggle II with the Royal Italian Air Pressure. His son, Manfredi Calamai, is a brand new pilot as properly. This ardour for aviation and Italian heritage is seen in each watch in Orologi Calamai’s portfolio, and the model even equipped watches to the Italian Air Pressure.
The brushed and polished case of the brand new Orologi Calamai GMT Automatico is 39mm in diameter and 10.8mm in peak with crystal (47.5mm lug-to-lug) – all in all, nice proportions – and the strong caseback options the serial variety of the precise turbine used for its make-up (secured with 4 peripheral screws). It additionally shows a cultured aerobatic plane in flight.
The bidirectional black ceramic bezel, with a really legible white 24-hour scale, has 48 clicks and a cool diamond-pattern knurling that’s shared with the signed screw-down crown. There are minimal crown guards with a light extension on the alternative facet of the case for steadiness. A sapphire crystal protects the dial, and the depth score is 50 metres. The smallish measurement could be very comfy with a skinny profile, and a 20mm brushed and polished seven-link metal bracelet completes this refined, strong package deal.
The black dial has a number of ranges with a granular textured centre surrounded by a skinny ring and small marks. Then there’s a ridged outer ring with utilized steel indices and Arabic numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, all full of white Tremendous-LumiNova. The syringe hour and minute fingers even have white Tremendous-LumiNova, whereas the seconds hand is inexperienced with a white lumed tip. The GMT hand is skeletonized and essentially the most discreet of all of them, however nonetheless completely legible for monitoring a second time zone. An in depth minute/seconds observe sits on an angled flange on the outermost perimeter.
Powering the GMT Automatico is a Sellita SW330-2 Prime Grade computerized (a clone of the ETA 2893-2), adjusted to 6 positions after casing. It has 25 jewels, beats at 28,800vph (4Hz) and comes with a 56-hour energy reserve. Capabilities embody central hours, minutes, hacking seconds, GMT and date (not utilized right here). Accuracy is rated at a median of +/- 4 seconds per day. That is once more an workplace/caller GMT watch because the GMT hand could be set independently in one-hour increments, whereas a traveller’s GMT independently units the native hour hand as an alternative.
The Orologi Calamai GMT Automatico retails for EUR 2,400, which isn’t dangerous in any respect for a classy and skinny workplace GMT made out of the turbine metal of a fighter jet. There’s positively a cool issue there, along with the Italian roots. It’s well-sized, comfy and permits for 3 time zones to be tracked with the rotating 24-hour bezel. For extra info and to put an order, please go to www.orologicalamai.com.
