That’s very interesting.
It seems that there could exist a kind of transitional dial between the A4 and A5 types...
More than the serif vs. sans serif fonts, look at the logo.
The A5 type (with dots) figures the new type of logo that won’t change till the end of the production, while the A4 type (without dots) figures the old version. And your dial (with dots) seems to have the old logo design...

Incredible that they have made so many dials versions in such a short period of time...!

 

It seems they’ve been experimenting a lot with variations of the dials, indeed. Here’s a picture of the back of the dial.

 

There was a Flightmaster 145.036 featured on the Antiques Roadshow on Sunday!

 

I've never considered this watch before, and even dismissed it as being quite ugly, but just last week I had a chance to try this 910 on and now I can't get it out of my head!

I just hope this model DOESN'T get more attention in the near future so that I can one day get to own one of my own.


(queue in long night internet searches and infinite forum threads scrolling... )

Cheers,
Lou

 

I am not an expert on these and don‘t have the Only book but I like the one I bought some years ago
Best Hajo

 

And a bit more close up of the dial
Thanks for looking !
Happy for any comments

 

The dial appears a bit washed compared to the rest. Interesting. But all the parts are vintage and correct to the reference. Without knowing nothing as you say, you seem to have catched a rather nice one

That's exactly the 013 effect. You don't care about it till you get one on your wrist. There is a good dozen of people I've infected with that germ

 

Hello, I don't undertand what are the serif fonts you are talking about?
Can you please provide more details?

 

Look at Lowen’s reply earlier in the thread.

“It seems that there could exist a kind of transitional dial between the A4 and A5 types...
More than the serif vs. sans serif fonts, look at the logo.
The A5 type (with dots) figures the new type of logo that won’t change till the end of the production, while the A4 type (without dots) figures the old version. And your dial(with dots) seems to have the old logo design...”

The two dials we have identified have the older logotype and share the old dials font, so to simplify it all, these two look like the first A4 type of dial with just two lume dots added next to the 12 marker. So a sort of a “transitional” dial before the A5 dial comes into the production.

 

I think it might be too late already... With the book released this year, they're definitely picking up ...

 

Just received the book! Now I understand!

 

...hahaha

 

I was searching for flightmasterdials cal 910 with the same characteristics than ours ...just viewing pictures on Instagram #flightmaster
and found many of them. They have a slightly broader gap beetween 1 and 8 in the green area of the day/night counter subdial, which is typical for A4 dials and dots around 12 which is in A5 dials ...

 

Here’s my 910 w/the “Flightmaster Only” book. Mine received complete maintenance from Bienne. This is my second Flightmaster, I sold my 911 w/yellow hands several years ago.

 

Just went looking on YouTube and here’s a link if anyone else is interested.

Not sure why but it won’t let me put the start time in the link, so you’ll have to skip to 37m40s where it starts...

 

Thanks for posting video.

Interesting to note the appraiser said it was an automatic watch

Of course it's a manual wind.

 

Here's mine and a little bit of it's history. I've had it since the beginning of the tear and I'm always surprised how small it wears on the wrist. It feels smaller than a modern speedy MK11 for sure.

 

I broke down and found this one. It was refurbished. I prefer the 910 variant

 

‘Fakk me’ ! This is 50 yrs old and is simply perfect !