Urofa pilot's chronograph

Lot 5500 limit € 2.800

Glashütte, no. 202065, caliber 59, built in the first half of 1942, expertly and carefully overhauled, functions checked, in unusually good condition, from the private family estate of the direct descendants of a German fighter pilot, In the 1940s, Dr. Ernst Kurtz a pilot's chronograph for the Luftwaffe. Thanks to a so-called flyback function, its caliber 59 enabled the chronograph to be reset immediately without stopping it first. This pilot's chronograph was developed in Glashütte in the early 1940s and was part of the standard equipment of the Luftwaffe at the time.