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Old 8th Jan 2006, 21:27
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Genghis the Engineer
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Re: WristWatch Selection

For flying I still use the Seiko military I was issued and the Queen forgot to ask for it back - that's for flying. Although the stopwatch minute hand has at some point jumped forward one tick and I have to remember to delete a minute, otherwise it's still incredibly reliable and accurate. I wear it on a velcro strap, and my personal habit is to strap it onto something in the cockpit in front of me in the air. (I still wish they'd put a 1hr stopwatch instead of 30 minutes on the thing 'though).

For formal wear, I have several (sadly the Su27 one I got given by some Russian colleages broke), but my favourite is a one-off. containing a fragment of Dresden Cathedral - presented to me as a speaker at a Test Pilots conference in Bavaria about 1999. (Wyvern was there too as a speaker, but no idea if he still wears his.)



Depending upon mood, I generally wear one or the other for the office.

G

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