The Stowa Flieger Verus 40 Baumuster B has its roots in the 1940s, a dark period for the world as it faced World War II. So, military watches were needed
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 Hanhart Preventor9 S Limited Production is a limited addition to the Pioneer Preventor9 series inspired by an 1950s Hanhart
The Bulova Lunar Pilot Meteorite makes a comeback and commemorates the moment when a Bulova went to the moon
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
The Hanhart 417 ES Moby Dick has returned. The watch draws inspiration from the original Hanhart 417 ES that was released in 1954
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 Certina DS Pilot Quartz is a new chronograph that is added to the DS line of the Swiss brand. Inspired by aviation of course
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