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

The legendary [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262|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.


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**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
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===== Weblinks: =====
  * [[http://www.aristo-watch.de/news/erbe.htm|Aristo ME 262 - Das Erbe für die Zukunft]], official site (German)


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