Tutima has added a smaller, lighter watch to its Flieger line. The Flieger T5 Titanium is a 38.5mm three-hander in Grade 5 titanium, offered with a black or a blue dial, and it was introduced on 18 August 2026. Monochrome covered it, and the references sit on tutima.com.
A smaller, lighter Flieger
The existing Flieger Automatics are 41mm. The T5 Titanium brings the case down to 38.5mm across and 12.5mm thick, and trades steel for Grade 5 titanium, brushed with polished accents. A domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment covers the dial, the crown is large, fluted and screws down, and the caseback screws down too, with a sapphire window over the movement. Water resistance is 100 metres. The smaller case is the news here. The Flieger has spent years at 41mm and above, and 38.5mm in titanium is the version a lot of people have been asking for.
The dial
Both dials follow the flieger grammar Tutima has used since its wartime aviation instruments. An orientation triangle flanked by two dots sits at twelve, a printed minute and seconds track runs around the edge, and the Arabic numerals are large and easy to read. The hands and markers carry Super-LumiNova, the central seconds hand is red, and a date window sits at six. One dial is black, reference 6109-02, the other blue, reference 6109-03. Neither leans hard on faux-vintage tricks. The lume is white rather than pumpkin, and the printing is clean.
The movement
Through the caseback is the automatic calibre 330, Tutima's name for a movement built on the ETA 2836. It beats at 4 Hz, holds 41 hours, and is dressed up more than the price would suggest, with a rhodium-plated rotor carrying a gold Tutima T. It hacks for setting and drives the central seconds and the date. This is not an in-house calibre and Tutima does not pretend otherwise. It is a known, serviceable base, which is part of why the watch costs what it does.
On the three-row titanium bracelet the Flieger T5 Titanium is EUR 2,350. On a vintage-style brown Horween leather strap it is EUR 1,950. Tutima's aviation history is real, its Glashütte address is real, and a 38.5mm titanium pilot's watch with a screwed-down display back and a solid ETA base at this price is an easy one to recommend to someone who wants the look without the weight. The squadron did not need another 41mm Flieger. It needed this one.
