Art Deco-style chronographs with a salmon-colored dial are extremely rare. Originals from the 1930s fetch top prices at auctions.

This watch embodies two important innovations that lead back to Tourby Watches. At the beginning of the 2000s, watchmaker Jürgen Norbert Tetzlaff send old radium luminous material to the TRITEC company in Switzerland and had SuperLumi-Nova made there in the same color. This is how Old Radium SuperLumi-Nova is created. At the same time, Erdal Yildiz designed a pilot´s watch with a small second at 6 o´clock based on the ETA Unitas 6498 movement. When he showed his design to some German watch manufacturers, he was rejected. The tenor of the brands is that you can only build a pilot´s watch with a center seconds. Then Yildiz decides to produce this design under his own brand. This is how the Tourby brand was born. A few years later, Yildiz meets Tetzlaff and is able to recruit him for his brand. From now on, both people from Hagen work under the name Tourby Watches and combine their two inventions into one watch.