Alpina’s pilot series of watches gets a new quartz model: the Alpina Startimer Pilot Quartz Worldtimer. It comes in three different colors
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 Longines Pilot Majetek is a vintage-inspired pilot watch that has its roots in a 1935 model from Longines
The Graham Fortress Green Monopusher Chronograph is a new addition to the Fortress series, a limited edition of 100 pieces
The Breguet Type XX Chronograph 2067 can be seen as an offspring of the Type XX model from the 1950s and 1960s
Together with the Type XX Chronograph 2057 this Breguet Type 20 Chronograph 2057 is launched – which goes back to the 1950s
The Longines Spirit collection is enriched with a chronograph: this is the Longines Spirit Flyback Chronograph 42 mm
The IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team is a new version for this years F1 team
With the Zenith Pilot Big Date Flyback 2023 you somehow go back to the 1900s when the Swiss brand already makes watches for pilots
Zenith gives the Pilot series a completely new design and starts off with this Zenith Pilot Automatic in steel and in black ceramic
The Oris ProPilot X Kermit Edition is a serious watch, despite the Kermit gimmick. Which you will only see once a month