This Breitling Premier B19 Datora 42 140th Anniversary is part of a trilogy from the Swiss brand to celebrate they are 140 years old
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
The famous Swiss brand reveals a trilogy, this Breitling Super Chronomat B19 44 Perpetual Calendar 140th Anniversary is one of them
IWC teams up with the Swiss Air Force Aerobatics team for this IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XX Patrouille Suisse Titanium
The Stowa Flieger Verus GMT Chrono Black Forest Limited is a perfect black tool watch, as it offers a chronograph and GMT function
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 model, in three versions, this is the Stowa Flieger Olympic in bronze, silver and gold. A nod to the medals of the Olympic Games
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