How it started
Designing a watch can take quite a while. Along that way as Rick deliberated over the design of the pilots watch, he approached his business partner one day and said most excitedly "You Didn't Tell Me Your Cousin Works At The Warbird Museum!".
"Sure, yeah. So?"
I found it! Rick said. It was on the dashboard of a P-40M. The eight day clock military specified A-11. Rick later combines the A-11 and A-13 US Military speficiations for dials on the dashboards of fighter pilots as base inspriation for the watch names after it's inspiration. That's the cool thing with watching Rick develop as a watch designer, when it's there, there it is.
Richter & Phillips
Limited Edition
This is the short lived first version of the P-40M Pilot Watch by Cincinnati Watch Company.
Rick Bell doesn't do things gently. He creates the P-40M Pilot Watch and donates a portion of every one to the restoration of warbirds at Tri-State Warbird Museum.
The first P-40M was the hand winding, skeletonized metal reflective hands, black dial as shown above. The image above is the first version sold of the P-40M Pilot watch. Year 2018.
We quickly realized the hands were not visible enough and moved to the white hands. 2019
1943
P-40M RNZAF
The inspiration for the P-40M Pilot watch is the warbird America went to war with completely restored by Tri-State Warbird Museum Award Winning Effort. Even the cotton wire covers are as they were coming off the production line in Buffalo, NY.
The first Version V1
Visible White Hands | Red Highlights on Black
Limited Edition Blue Pilot
Sells Out in Minutes
Honestly, I could not believe it. It wasn't like we were all sitting around together either waiting for 5pm, it turned out 40 fans were! Incredibly, as I rushed to get the pages design finished and published by 5, I finish right at 5 and press Save. The moment the page saved the sound of an order came through. Then another, and another. Within 13 minutes all of the Limited Edition Blue were sold out.
The Warbird
Green Pilot Watch
Honestly, I could not believe it. It wasn't like we were all sitting around together either waiting for 5pm, it turned out 40 fans were! Incredibly, as I rushed to get the pages design finished and published by 5, I finish right at 5 and press Save. The moment the page saved the sound of an order came through. Then another, and another. Within 13 minutes all of the Limited Edition Blue were sold out.
Specifications
Case
- 36 mm 316L Stainless Steel
- 10.2 mm thick (including domed sapphire crystal)
- 44.8 mm Lug-to-Lug
- 20 mm Lug width
- 5 ATM Water Resistance
Crystal
- Sapphire (dial side and caseback)
Dial (Union Terminal)
- Blue w/ Sunburst effect on 2nd layer
- Gilt indicies and hands
Dial (Captain)
- Silver Sunburst Effect with Luminous Arabic Numerals
- C5 Supermluminova on indices
- C3 Superluminova on Hands
Movement
- Automatic Sellita SW300-1b Elabore Grade
- Stop Seconds Hacking
- 28,800 VPR
- 25 Jewels
- 56 hour power reserve
- Regulated in 5 positions by our in house watchmaker, timing report included with watch.
Included Accessories
- 20 mm Stainless Steel bracelet, tapers to 16 mm, 3 micro adjustments on clasp.
Warranty
- Two year warranty. View Terms Here
Assembly
- Assembled in Cincinnati by our In-House Watchmaker
PRICE
- Full Retail $895. Available now at Richter & Phillips.