Tutima Military Chronograph MK1

This Tutima is a great find although the dial is “Military” marked these  pieces had those designations for both official military and non-military issued models, as they were first sold at regular retail to the public. Eventually, the watch caught the eye of various national militaries around the world. For military-commissioned pieces, the casebacks were engraved differently; for example, the casebacks were engraved “BUND”( short for “Bundeswehr”) with military issued numbers for the German military. This present example is a non-military issued version but with all the same outfitting, including the workhorse Lemania 5100 chronograph movement inside. The Tutima watch was selected by NATO in 1985 for use by its jet pilots as well as the USA amongst others .Other manufacturers of this series were Porsche Design ,Orfina and Hanhart

Tutima produced this from the early 1980,s and this is the earliest dial variant marked military ,all later dials were signed Tutima as well.

The 41mm stainless steel case houses the superb automatic Lemania 5100 chronograph movement and has screw back, sapphire crystal, the watch also features an outer black chapter ring with white painted Arabic numerals. The black dial itself has aged creamy lume for the hour markers and painted white second markers The quick-set day and date apertures are placed at three o'clock, while the twelve-hour chronograph register, the sub-seconds and the 24-hour display are featured at six, nine and twelve o'clock respectively.

Fitted to an integral stainless steel bracelet this piece offers you the chance to buy a very affordable vintage chronograph from the early 1980’s running on a world class bullet proof chronograph movement and with genuine military pedigree.

Our stock number 951