The Zenith Pilot Automatic Porter, a collaboration with the Japanese brand Porter, brings a new dimension to the Zenith Pilot line
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
This Stowa Flieger Vintage 6498 is part of a new series of classic pilot watches from the German brand, here with a vintage-like caliber
The Stowa Flieger Vintage series is a wave of new models. To find out which one is which is a serious puzzle, so we chop them into two different parts
The Blancpain Air Command Chronograph Titanium Green is a new take on the brand’s vintage pilot chronograph with a 1950s link
After the 42-millimeter from 2019 and the 38 from 2022, there are now two new version of the Hamilton Khaki Field Murph 38 mm
The Stowa Flieger Verus Black Forest Lagoon gives you a lot of options for the overall looks, because the customer is King of course
If you have ever looked at the cockpit of an aircraft, you will recognize the dial of this Bell & Ross BR 03 Horizon immediately. But what is it?
The civilian version of the military Type 20 becomes even more civilian with this Breguet Type XX Chronograph 2067 in rose gold
The Breitling Navitimer B19 Chronograph 43 Perpetual Calendar 140th Anniversary is a variant of one of the top tier aviation watches
This Breitling Premier B19 Datora 42 140th Anniversary is part of a trilogy from the Swiss brand to celebrate they are 140 years old