![]() ![]() With their classic pilot styling and clean, yet bold, dials - which is especially the case for this year’s 150-year jubilee releases, with a complete collection of alluringly lacquered dials. IWC’s pilot watches hold a special place in the heart of collectors. RRP from $4800 IWC Pilot’s Chronograph Watch Edition “150 Years” And it doesn’t get any less foolproof than the Worldtimer version of the classic Oris ProPilot – with a simple twist of the bezel, the main hour hand quickly jumps forwards or backwards in one-hour increments. If, like a pilot, you’re crossing multiple time zones daily, one of the most coveted complications on a watch must be a dual-time. RRP from $10,390 Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer The first release for Breitling under the guidance of newly appointed CEO Georges Kern. And this year the classic is joined by the Navitimer 8 collection. The Navitimer and its typical slide rule bezel has graced countless cockpits for more than 65 years. The icon, the legend, the chronograph with an inbuilt flight computer. ![]() Those creamy old-world Arabic numerals, the iconic fluted middle caseband, and a view to the first-rate flyback dual-time movement inside. RRP $3450 Breguet Type XXI 3817Īndrew developed a serious watch crush on the Breguet Type XXI back at Baselworld 2016 and honestly, I can see why. If readability is the winning hand in a game of pilot’s watch, then the BigEye has it in spades. We love it, you love it, even the who’s who of the watch industry love it, with this Avigation claiming “Revival of the Year” at the “Oscars” of the watch world – the GPHG. And while we can’t all be Maverick or Iceman (no one wants to be Goose), we can still live out the fantasy and feel the need for speed with these … Longines Avigation BigEye Ultimately (since you asked), a pilot’s watch is one that is instantly readable at a glance, whether in simple time-only form, or more complicated with functions that a pilot might find useful. But this is a case of practicality being beside the point, as Cam explores in his excellent list …įirst things first, just what is a pilot’s watch? While I think most of us could instantly recognise one, there isn’t an exact formula like there is when it comes to dive watches - and there’s a lot more to it than simply being a watch a pilot would wear. I/trending 21898 EDITOR’S PICK: 10 pilot’s watches that have the right stuff Felix ScholzĮditor’s note: Along with dive watches, we seem to have an insatiable fascination with pilot’s watches - even though pretty much no one who wears one knows how to fly, and even if we did, they’ve been largely superseded by modern cockpit instrumentation. ![]()
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