The difference between the two was the dial layout: the Type A being very simple, with more of a traditional clock layout, and the Type B being more technical. An example of a Type A flieger made by ...

More Flieger Chronograph first released in 1941 ... and the same chronograph subsidiary dial placement on the main face. It also features bright green Super-LumiNova hands and numerals.

The sweet spot these days is 39mm, but 41mm is hardly a great leap, and as a chronograph, the Flieger probably needs that real estate on the dial to adequately display all the info it supplies ...

Like most sane, sensible and non-weird people, I like to google myself. Often. And after some expert googling I was surprised to learn that I've never written about flieger watches. As a devotee ...