Airman 42 Vintage Lume Dial Purist

The close working relationship between Gnomon and Glycine allows us to offer Glycine watches at a special introductory price, complete with two years Glycine international warranty.

Besides military watches, Glycine is also a pioneer in pilot watches. Glycine started production of the Airma in 1953. This is the legendary watch that introduced multiple time-zone watches to the market. Since then, Glycine has continuously  developed a chain of aviation watches, ranging from successively more complex world timers to unique collector's items. Examples in their archive are like during the Gemini 5 and Apollo 12 flights in 1965 and 1969. Both these missions, astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad wears a Glycine Airman on his wrist throughout.

The Glycine Airman 42 Lume Dial Purist GL0463 was designed based on their original and famous watch from 1953. It features a customised blackout case, with matte white GMT dial, and a unique handset.  

The most significant change for model is perhaps the 12-hour scale on the bezel and the dial, in contrast to the many other Airman models retaining a traditional 24-hour ‘purist’ layout which features an hour hand that only sweeps the dial once per day. Besides the screw down crown at the 3 o’clock position that sets the time and date, the ingenious thumbscrew crown at the 4 o’clock position locks the steel unidirectional rotating bezel in place to prevent accidental bezel movement causing an inaccurate reading of a second time zone, a simple but effective piece of technology from the ‘50s.