Included strap — Nylon strap · Negro · without logo · gold buckle
“And before every take-off, someone checks the time”
— Swell Manifesto · Ground Swell
What we know about the 131, stated plainly. And what is not yet settled, stated just as plainly.
A 42 mm round case in steel plated with 24 K gold — the proportions of a pilot’s watch, legible at a single glance. The large fluted crown turns readily, even with cold fingers. At the back, a sapphire caseback reveals the mechanical movement
Toasted ochre enamel over a granulated base that can just be glimpsed beneath, deepened by a fumé towards the edge, like the leather of a flying jacket. Eleven two-digit numerals and a faceted baton at every hour, applied in gilt metal. At 9 o’clock, the small seconds — flat, snailed with concentric grooves — beats six times a second
On 15 October 1921, the first flight of a Spanish airline took off from Tablada, bound for Larache: a biplane carrying a mailbag and two passengers. From the same airfield the great flights to the Americas would later depart: in 1929, a biplane that reached Brazil non-stop, and in 1933, the Cuatro Vientos, en route to Cuba. The Tablada carries the ochre of that earth and the leather of those flying jackets
