RGM’s Model 151 Flying Ace carries what the maker calls the first true grand feu enamel dial ever made of Snoopy in his WWI Flying Ace persona — a technique usually reserved for Swiss haute horlogerie, fired by hand in a Pennsylvania workshop that turns out roughly 400 watches a year.

Grand feu enamel means glass, ground to powder, dusted onto a metal disc, and fired in a kiln hot enough to melt it into a glossy sheet — temperatures near 1,600°F. Each color goes in as its own layer and its own firing: the white base, then Snoopy’s black-and-white outline, his green flying cap, the red doghouse, the pale clouds, every pass a chance for the dial to crack or discolor and force a restart. It’s the same process used for the world’s most expensive dress watches, applied here to a beagle in goggles.

RGM is Roland G. Murphy’s watch company, founded in 1992 and based in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania — not Lancaster proper, though it sits in Lancaster County, home to one of the only serial tourbillon workshops in North America. The case earns its American-made label honestly: 316L steel or titanium, machined near the shop and hand-finished in-house. The movement doesn’t. It’s a Swiss-made RGM-Sellita SW300-1 — an outsourced automatic base that RGM re-finishes with rhodium plating, Côtes de Genève striping, and perlage before it goes into the case. Worth knowing if “entirely American-made” is what sold you.

The watch itself is a 38.5mm pilot’s case, just 9.9mm thick, with sapphire front and back and water resistance to 5 ATM — specs that carry over from RGM’s standard 151 pilot line, dial and Peanuts license aside. Buyers who want the look without the enamel premium can get Snoopy on a matte light-blue metal dial for $3,950 in steel; the grand feu version runs $8,950 in steel or $9,950 in titanium, ordered directly through RGM rather than any retailer.

Peanuts licensing on a boutique dial is its own small feat — Charles M. Schulz’s Flying Ace has been merchandised for sixty years, rarely onto a watch this deliberately made. RGM frames it as a natural fit for an aviator’s dial, and it’s hard to argue: Snoopy atop his doghouse, goggles down, has been playing pilot since 1965.