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
Pilot
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.
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.
Pilot watches
The Zenith Pilot Big Date Flyback Blue is a new version within the new Pilot collection of the Swiss brand. Now available in blue
The Zenith Pilot Automatic Blue is a follow-up of the earlier introduced black Pilot time-date models. It only comes in stainless steel
The IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Top Gun Woodland is the second GMT pilot from the brand in their Top Gun collection
The IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Mojave Desert in sand-colored ceremic joins the brand’s Top Gun collection
The Oris ProPilot GMT is a new addition to the ProPilot series. This aviation inspired series goes back to pilot watches launched in 1938
Two new IWC’s: the IWC Pilot’s Watch Performance Chronograph 41 AMG and the 41 Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team
The IWC Big Pilot’s Watch 43 Tourbillon Markus Bühler is a tribute to the original version of 2008, a limited edition of 12 back then
Following the stainless steel B01 Avenger Chronograph this Breitling Avenger B01 Chronograph 44 Night Mission comes in black
The Breitling Avenger B01 Chronograph 44 is part of a new set of Avenger watches model. A design inspired by military aviation