Monday, March 07, 2005

Glycine Airman 9 1st to use ETA 7754 movement…

Glycine Airman 9 first to use ETA 7754 movement.

George Shmagranoff pointed out to me via email today that the Glycine Airman 9 is using the ETA(Valjoux) 7754. Glycine supposed to be the first to get this movement.

The 7754 is a variant of the ETA (Valjoux) 7750 which has a 24hr indicator running off of the center pinion. The difference between this movement and earlier 7750's with a 24-hour center pinion hand, like my Lucien Richot pictured below this paragraph, is the center pinion can be advanced to indicate a second time-zone and isn't slaved to the main timekeeping hour hand.

The Airman 9 is a 44mm watch without crown, 15mm thick, 200m Water Resistance, 22mm lugs and doesn't appear to be available on bracelet. It dies have a nicely finished movement sitting behind a sapphire display back:

The Airman 9 is available in White, Blue and two different styles of Black Dial (Black with Silver sub-dial at 6, and Black with Red sub-dial at 6 o'clock). Interestingly enough, the hour sub-dial has markings for reading up to 24-hours elapsed time, the only other chronograph I'm familar with that has this feature is the LeJour FlyGraf. MSRP is purported to be $3,600 US Dollars. I especially like the White Dial. Has a bit of Explorer II about it...

Details on the Airman 9 can be found on Glycine's website.

Thanks George for pointing this one out!

3 comments:

  1. Beautiful watch, and good news about the movement. But that watch is WAY overpriced imho.


    Chris

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  2. I nearly bought one, but when I saw that you can't read the chrono between say 25 and 36 seconds I didn't bother!

    Chuck, what do you think of the controversy over the new JLC chrono?

    Regards Velociphile

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  3. Norman,

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    Chuck

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