Airspeed

Airspeed is the name under which Revue Thommen now gathers its aeronautically-inspired chronographs, the most direct chapter of the brand's historic link with aviation: already in 1916 the Waldenburg manufacture had delivered the first cockpit chronograph to the Swiss Air Force, and between 1936 and 1943 it had developed an actual flight-instrument division — altimeters, airspeed indicators, rate-of-climb indicators — on military commission. The line's own name, "airspeed", directly echoes the function of the airspeed indicators the manufacture produced for cockpits.

Airspeed watches translate this instrumental past into a classic pilot-watch design language: high-contrast dials with Arabic numerals and generously luminescent indices, robust steel cases with screwed case backs, and a chronograph layout designed for quick legibility rather than elegance alone. The automatic ETA 7750 movement, one of the most widespread and reliable chronograph calibers in Swiss watchmaking, equips much of the line alongside additional functions such as date and day of the week.

Within the line, variants closer to the classic pilot chronograph coexist with "Diver" versions of the same Airspeed, designed for those seeking a single instrument-watch capable of covering both aeronautical use and occasional diving — a multi-use solution consistent with the brand's historic vocation for professional instrumentation rather than for the mere dress watch.