A hand-wound flyback for under three grand
By Rafael Ortiz, Mexico City ยท
Flyback. Hand-wound. Under 3,000 dollars. Those three things almost never come together, and that's why I keep thinking about the Jackson.
It uses the Eterna 3916M, a manual-wind flyback with 60 hours of reserve. For anyone who times things in the air, the flyback is the useful bit: one press to reset and restart, no stop-reset-start dance. The navy dial is handsome, the case is 40 mm, on leather, rated to 50 meters.
My complaints are the case and the back. At 14.5 mm, it's thick for 40 mm. And with an unusual movement like that, I'd want an open caseback to look at it, but this one is closed. At 2,850 dollars it's still the cheapest way I know into a hand-wound flyback, and that alone makes it worth a look.