Pilots watch
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Reminds me of that Oscar Ingham cartoon in the then Flt Ops. magazine of many a yesteryear, depicting the beer gut proud Captain and Flt.. Eng. sat, beer in hand, by a swimming pool at some crew slip hotel. Bubbles are rising from the bottom of the pool, and the caption was .. " Very sad,it's our Second Officer, his new Seiko Day Date Automatic watch dragged him to the bottom.!"
And the stewardess complaining to the hotel manager that all the pilots were swimming naked in the hotel pool. "Madam, if the're naked how do you know that they're pilots ? " 'cos they've all got big watches and little cxxks.
And the stewardess complaining to the hotel manager that all the pilots were swimming naked in the hotel pool. "Madam, if the're naked how do you know that they're pilots ? " 'cos they've all got big watches and little cxxks.
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Originally Posted by ExSp33db1rd
Reminds me of that Oscar Ingham cartoon in the then Flt Ops. magazine of many a yesteryear, depicting the beer gut proud Captain and Flt.. Eng. sat, beer in hand, by a swimming pool at some crew slip hotel. Bubbles are rising from the bottom of the pool, and the caption was .. " Very sad,it's our Second Officer, his new Seiko Day Date Automatic watch dragged him to the bottom.!"
And the stewardess complaining to the hotel manager that all the pilots were swimming naked in the hotel pool. "Madam, if the're naked how do you know that they're pilots ? " 'cos they've all got big watches and little cxxks.
And the stewardess complaining to the hotel manager that all the pilots were swimming naked in the hotel pool. "Madam, if the're naked how do you know that they're pilots ? " 'cos they've all got big watches and little cxxks.
On a helicopter job in the South West of England a few years ago I was one of several stuck in a strange B&B on Exmoor, after a few days our landlady was heard to say to a colleague "you 'elicopter pilots are all the bleeding same, big c##ks, big clocks, no bleeding money!"
SND
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Sir Niall
Seems like a variation on the words allegedly uttered by a woman of ill repute when "short changed" on a business arrangement: "you RAF all the same - big dick, dirty drawers and no money."
Seems like a variation on the words allegedly uttered by a woman of ill repute when "short changed" on a business arrangement: "you RAF all the same - big dick, dirty drawers and no money."
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Originally Posted by Null Orifice
Sir Niall
Seems like a variation on the words allegedly uttered by a woman of ill repute when "short changed" on a business arrangement: "you RAF all the same - big dick, dirty drawers and no money."
Seems like a variation on the words allegedly uttered by a woman of ill repute when "short changed" on a business arrangement: "you RAF all the same - big dick, dirty drawers and no money."
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A "commercial arrangement" with a 'lady' of Eastern origin "You flyers in blue khaki all same, small cock, *two watches*, no money!" 'down route', in the 50s. (* * one on local, one on zulu)
(SWMBO still says it was one of the first things she noticed when we first met
) My Omega Seamaster and Auntie Betty's 'Woolworths Special didn't feature resettable dials
Edit - Just to add, it was a conversation starter with the bar tender at my 'local' in Bangkok, a place where I once bought a bottle of beer for a brown bear! ... he was no Harvey and I'm definitely no Jimmy Stewart!
(SWMBO still says it was one of the first things she noticed when we first met
) My Omega Seamaster and Auntie Betty's 'Woolworths Special didn't feature resettable dialsEdit - Just to add, it was a conversation starter with the bar tender at my 'local' in Bangkok, a place where I once bought a bottle of beer for a brown bear! ... he was no Harvey and I'm definitely no Jimmy Stewart!
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big c##ks, big clocks, no bleeding money!"
* * one on local, one on zulu
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Originally Posted by ExSp33db1rd
Then I bought the Glycine GMTMaster. The hand only went around once in 24 hours instead of twice, so keep the movement on GMT and read local time off a movable bezel around the edge inscribed 0 to 24. Only trouble was that one doesn't really "read" a watch, just looks at the "picture", so having 6 half way down the righthand side, 12 at the bottom and 18 half way up the left hand side was confusing ! But it worked.
In case anyone is interested, my solution is a cheap smart watch with a home-made face that shows GMT as digital and local as analog.
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I keep my phone on zulu, so I know what time Mrs Uplinker, and (UK) Ops and Crewing are on when I phone them or they phone me down route. Also helps when I am checking my roster via the phone, and zulu is aircraft and ATC time of course.
Casio “wave ceptor” (sic) watch, (WVA-M640TD). Cost only £190, solar powered, radio updates every night, so is accurate to the second, has analogue and digital displays. A button lights the whole watch face up in the dark.
Down route, I set the watch analogue to local and can see UTC on the digital part. The digital part also tells me what day it is, because I often lose track. The watch alarm follows the local time setting.
Casio “wave ceptor” (sic) watch, (WVA-M640TD). Cost only £190, solar powered, radio updates every night, so is accurate to the second, has analogue and digital displays. A button lights the whole watch face up in the dark.
Down route, I set the watch analogue to local and can see UTC on the digital part. The digital part also tells me what day it is, because I often lose track. The watch alarm follows the local time setting.
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Hmm, sounds like I have the best solution with a $130 Huawei watch! Downside is that like all smart watches the battery lasts a max of couple of days between recharges and that people keep looking at it and telling me my watch is wrong. Interesting point about date, now you have me wondering if I should show Zulu day as well as local date.
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At the time of which I wrote, watches only showed one time (possibly Rolex had moveable bezels?) and digital watches were unheard of!
Nowadays, I make do with a Citizen EcoDrive perpetual calendar - set it on GMT over 10 years ago and haven't altered it since! No batteries required, of course; the couple of seconds occasional discrepancy is no problem and, having bought it secondhand, I reckon its my 'best buy' ever! The Omega mentioned earlier was a 21st B'day pressie and still lives in my 'bits 'n pieces' some 63 years later!
Nowadays, I make do with a Citizen EcoDrive perpetual calendar - set it on GMT over 10 years ago and haven't altered it since! No batteries required, of course; the couple of seconds occasional discrepancy is no problem and, having bought it secondhand, I reckon its my 'best buy' ever! The Omega mentioned earlier was a 21st B'day pressie and still lives in my 'bits 'n pieces' some 63 years later!
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Originally Posted by double_barrel
But seriously, what do normal people, who don't want that $1,800 monstrosity, do for the local/GMT thing ? Surely that is all you really need from a 'pilot's watch'?
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Originally Posted by double_barrel
Downside is that like all smart watches the battery lasts a max of couple of days between recharges and that people keep looking at it and telling me my watch is wrong.
Same goes for watches. My 1984 Seiko runs for around 2 years or so on a battery, and keeps excellent time (only ever needs resetting when the clocks change). A "smart" watch needs charging every two days? Seems absolutely crazy to me, I want stuff to just work, and not force me to faff around finding somewhere to charge them up every day or two.
Equally I can't get my head around people that want something the size of an anchor strapped to their wrist. I sold my old Omega because the damned thing was too big and heavy, and always got jammed on my shirt cuff. I've never understood the apparent attraction of big watches, although I am coming around to the idea that a larger face might be useful, in terms of making a watch easier to see (an ageing problem...).
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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In the 60s in Singapore we had dual time watches. Wear one normally it gave GMT, search it upside down it gave local time 😀
