Very much a Limited Edition watch. Limited to 777 pieces, the FAB Piloto solar chronograph is the second Orient model launched in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Esquadrilha da Fumaça. Focused on the skills of 7 men piloting 7 aircraft, on this 70th anniversary, the solar chronograph brings a little of the pilots’ aeronautical skills – like a slide rule on the rim.
Tried to keep it as close to the original as possible. The only things I changed was to code the Chrono with a dual function. It acts as 2nd second hand in normal mode and then chrono in stopwatch mode. I just decided it was such a cool looking hand that it was a bit of a waste to just park it at 12 o’clock.
Also no images of this in dim mode, so I just very much made it up as I went along.
Built entirely from scratch in GIMP and assembled and coded in WatchMaker.
Tap Features:
- Double Tap 6 to Unlock Tap Functions / Single Tap to Lock tap functions.
- Between 1 & 2 to rotate Slide Rule clockwise.
- Between 10 & 11 to rotate Slide Rule anticlockwise.
- 12 to Reset Slide Rule to 0.
- Tap center to zoom / Multi
- 3 to adjust the Brightness.
- 9 to toggle Dim – Auto / On / Off.
- 12 to change Faces.
- Tap top Sub-dial to Start/Pause/Stopwatch – Double tap to Reset. The hands park out of the way, revert when stopwatch reset.
- Chrono Hand Battery Reserve in Dim, also coded to act as additional sec hand.
