The Bell & Ross Vintage BR 126 Aeronavale is the chronograph version of the new Aeronavale models, inspired by navy pilots
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
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This new pilot, the Breitling Chronoliner Red Gold Limited Edition, is an addition to the current series with a new color and only 250 pieces are made
The Bell & Ross Vintage BR 123 Aeronavale is the three-hand small seconds version, which has been added to the Vintage BR Aeronavale collection
Desert camouflage for the latest Alpina Startimer model, the Alpina Startimer Camouflage Pilot Big Date Chronograph
The history of the Longines Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch by Charles A. Lindbergh and Longines after the first transatlantic crossing