“Great homage to the mighty flighty but with upgrades to the crystal, the bracelet and the legibility is great....love it, the blue and yellow accents really pop...”
“This watch fulfilled all expectations. Fit and finish were excellent and the materials used were of obvious quality. This is a well engineered timepiece. Oh, and my wife says its beautiful!”
“This watch has an E6B circular slide rule that actually functions. Some competing watches have similar devices, but do not have all of the needed scales to make them actually usable for flight calculations. They are just styling exercises. Plus the the watch has a great look, and the blue dial one that I purchased is very readable.
I worked at Grumman on the F-14D program, so the picture of the F-14s on the back was icing on the cake. I'm very happy with this watch.”
“The Calverton has great build quality and looks great.
My gripes are related to functionality and are probably more criticisms of the original Flightmaster than of the Calverton itself. The new version of the Calverton has a larger slide rule bezel font, which is an improvement, but it and the companion font on the chapter ring could still be larger. With all the functionality the watch could deliver, it probably also needs to be a bit larger.
For an analog chronograph, a 60 minute sub-dial is unreadable. A 30-minute sub-dial is at the limit of legibility. Seiko had the movement right in the 7T32, which was the predecessor to this movement with a 30-minute sub-dial (like the Navitimer and the Seagull 1963 and the Ronda 5130.B).
Given a slide-rule bezel, the tachymeter is a bit redundant (36/secs)x100. The problem with including a tachymeter is that the minute markers are pushed out further and made smaller. It is hard to read or set exactly what time it is. The one thing an analog watch should be able to do is tell what time (to the minute) it is. Maybe if the minute track and tachymeter swapped locations, it would work.”
“This is a beautiful watch and I'm very much enjoying it. The bracelet is very comfortable and it's easy to add or remove links with the supplied screwdriver. I have two small nits to pick and I did remove one star: maybe I'm being unrealistic but I'm still chasing after watches with good lume. But none of them can hold a candle to my cheap Citizen Promaster Diver, including this one. The other thing is the chrono second hand is rather jumpy on my copy. It's not a smooth tic. I don't know if it's the battery but I've only had it a week. Even my $100 Pagani Speedmaster knockoff is smoother than this. I can't help but be a little disappointed.”
