IWC teams up with the Swiss Air Force Aerobatics team for this IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XX Patrouille Suisse Titanium
A pilot is a watch type that is tailored to the needs of aircraft pilots. Although the reality was that pilots only needed a watch with hours, minutes and seconds to do their calculations for time and distance. But no one did, as all those calculation functions are on the standard manual flight computers and calculators. Unless they were flying something that looked more like a bike.
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However, at some point watchmakers mixed the functions of standard manual flight computers and calculators into a watch. Except for the cross wind plot calculator. To make them readable these watches were bigger than regular watches. Nevertheless, all the extra functions on the watch were already in a plane. These days, when electronic systems were introduced on planes, built into flight management systems, pilot watches became even more unnecessary. Still, pilot watches, with all the heroic stories, precision certificates and the complicated dials and bezels attract a lot of people.
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Pilot watches
Hanhart presents a new naval aviation watch with the Hanhart Fly Navy Aerosphere, with which you can navigate and dive
The story behind the Lunar Pilot is very interesting, which provides this Bulova Lunar Pilot Blood Moon some history about watches on the moon
A new edition of the Majetek, however now in titanium, the Longines Pilot Majetek Pioneer Edition. Limited to 1,935 pieces
The Hamilton Khaki Aviation Pilot Air-Glaciers 42 mm is created with direct input from the helicopter pilots from Air-Glaciers
The Dubois et Fils DBF009 Pilot Watch Bidynator 2 is the second series of watches by the Swiss brand containing a 1948 Bidynator movement
The Stowa Flieger Verus 40 Baumuster B has its roots in the 1940s, a dark period for the world as it faced World War II. So, military watches were needed
The Hanhart Preventor9 S Limited Production is a limited addition to the Pioneer Preventor9 series inspired by an 1950s Hanhart
The Bulova Lunar Pilot Meteorite makes a comeback and commemorates the moment when a Bulova went to the moon
The Hamilton Khaki Aviation Pilot Day-Date 42 mm is the latest addition to the Khaki Aviation Pilot collection. It comes in three color versions