By Invitation Only·Established MMXXVI
The Executions
The range varies on two axes — the metal of the hands and applied numerals, and the strap it is finished on. Choose one to see it in detail.
On the Movement
There is little sense in owning a watch whose service costs as much as the watch. The Volante runs a movement chosen for exactly that reason — accurate, hacking, hand-winding, and serviceable by any competent watchmaker. Serviced every eighteen months to three years, it will never cost you more than the timepiece itself. That is the whole point.
Specifications
Wearing it
Dressed up
The fit
Cuff sitting on the wrist bone, not over it. A pilot case is tall — if the cuff has to ride up to clear it, the shirt is too tight in the sleeve.
A pilot watch is business casual at its most formal, and this is the top of its range. It reads deliberate against navy; it would read like fancy dress under a suit.
Dressed down
The fit
Trim through the body, sleeves pushed to just below the elbow. One caution on a knitted polo specifically: pushing the sleeves stretches the cuff, and it does not fully recover — Simon Crompton's rule is to keep it for denser knits or accept that length permanently. A woven shirt you can roll twice, mid-forearm, and it goes back.
The aged cream numerals pick up the natural of the polo almost exactly, and the tan strap answers the brown suede without matching it — same family, different shade, which is the pairing tailors have never argued about. Charcoal stops it going entirely warm.
