Aristo Messerschmitt ME 262

The Messerschmitt ME 262 is a pilot's watch by Aristo, named after one of the most famous German WWII fighter aircrafts.

The legendary Messerschmitt Me 262 was from 1942 the best military aircraft in the world and the first jet fighter of aircraft history. Also excited about the ME 262 was the Pforzheim watch produce Hansjörg Vollmer, who developed a watch which revives the spirit of the legendary "Sturmvogel" (Petrel): a powerful, handsome model with 44 mm stainless steel case, equipped with a 10-mm onion crown, a riveted leather strap and a screwed transparent bottom, waterproof to 5 bar. Each copy is numbered consecutively and equipped inside with precision regulated self-winding movement ETA 2824-2 and decorated rotor.

At the Moscow Watch Salon 2005 the watch, in the variant "Tango Tango" (with Milanaise metal bracelet), won the first place at the election Watch of the Year in the division for military and sports watches.

The Aristo ME 262 is offered in the variations black dial ("Black X"), white dial ("White 3") and luminous superluminova dial ("Yellow 7"), the names remembering of three of the actually surviving originals of the aircraft.

Movement: Mechanical automatic movement ETA 2824-2, 28,800 A/h Decorated rotor withsequential numbering Power reserve 38 h Case: Stainless steel Ø 44.0 mm, H 12 mm Bidirectional rotating cannellated bezel with luminous marker Sapphire crystal Screwed-in transparent caseback with mineral glass Waterproof to 50 m Dial: Black with white hands and numerals (Superluminova) Variant: white with black hands and numerals Variant: yellow / Superluminova with black hands and numerals Functions: Hours, minutes, central seconds, date Hacking seconds Bracelet: Leather strap with rivets

Weblinks:

• Aristo ME 262 - Das Erbe für die Zukunft, official site (German)