This Affordable Automatic Pilot’s Watch Gets a Sporty Titanium Upgrade

Farer covers all the bases as well as any indie watch brand. Its catalog features dressy cushion cases and worldtimers, alongside sporty compression divers and integrated bracelets.

But the British watchmaker also provides an exceptional variety within each individual collection. With the new Pilot Series II release, Farer rounds out its tool watch offerings with four distinct dials built into a new titanium case.

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As is standard practice for the brand, the variation within this four-piece release goes well beyond colors and materials. There are three very distinct dial layouts, joined by an exotic twist seldom seen from European brands.

Starting with the most straightforward and versatile design, the Curtis is inspired by Allied pilot’s watches from the World War II era. A white applied Lumicast hour track is comprised of a large triangle index at 12:00 and horizontal dashes at 3, 6 and 9, with the remainder filled out by Arabic numerals.

The blue snailed dial is subtly segmented into a dozen pie pieces and encircled by a sizable rehaut marked with a 60-dash track with yellow blocks every five spaces.

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The brown Barnwell features a dial inspired by Type B Flieger watches, also from the 1940s, distinguished by a larger 60-minute track separated from an inner, smaller 12-hour track by a ring.

It has a similar dodecagonal segmented dial, but with a matte texture. Cutouts in the sky blue rehaut make room for the block hour markers, coated in the same Super-LumiNova as the hour track.

Both the Curtis and Barnwell have colored PVD coatings on their 40mm titanium cases, fluted fixed bezels and onion crowns, in blue and brown, respectively.

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The Hewlett retains the dark gray hue of its sandblasted titanium case, contrasted by a radial brushing on the bezel. The onion crown features the same brass logo coin used throughout this and most Farer collections.

It features a grainy navy blue dial with scored crosshair lines. There is an applied Lumicast hour track framed by a railroad seconds track inside of a white lume-coated rehaut, marked with a blue 60-minute track.

The one unifying feature across all four Pilot Series II dials is the use of alpha hour and minute hands, each with Super-LumiNova inlays, complete with a long, arrow-tipped seconds hand.

A titanic upgrade

Farer’s new 40mm titanium case is capped with a domed sapphire crystal on the front and a solid titanium screw-on caseback on the reverse.

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Inside the case, protecting the Sellita Caliber SW300-1 automatic movement with its 56-hour power reserve, is a soft-iron Faraday cage. This provides solid antimagnetic protection up to 500 Gauss.

An Eastern Arabic alternative

The most intriguing member of the new Pilot Series II collection is the Curtis Eastern Arabic. It is the same dial design as the standard Curtis, but with Lumicast hour markers and a 60-minute track in Eastern Arabic numerals.

This intriguing alternative is a limited edition of 100 pieces.

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Availability and pricing

The Farer Pilot’s Series II is available now for preorder from Farer for $1,525. Orders ship out in mid-June.

All four references are available on your choice of suede and leather straps in seven different colors. Farer also offers complimentary caseback engraving with each purchase.

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Farer Pilot Series II

Specs

Case Size	40mm
Movement	Sellita Caliber SW300-1 automatic
Water Resistance	100m

• $1,525 at Farer

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