Watches

[Farfrompuken]

Seiko Flightmaster GMT

Apparently no longer in production, so if you can get a 'pre-owned' one you may be lucky. Makes it an even better prospect as it'll always gain value.

By a long shot the best time-piece I've owned.

[Horror box]

OK, quit messing about - got to have a Rolex sub for the general "Rolex factor", keeps crap time, but somehow still one of the worlds most collectable watches, and it is hard as nails. Mine has been everywhere with me and survived more than many other watches. Fakes look almost identical though.
Then get a Sinn (Sinn Spezialuhren zu Frankfurt am Main) for true german engineering and pure quality of build. A BMW or Audi of watches for sure, and better quality than the marketed Breitlings or Tags, but at a more affordable price.

[Farfrompuken]

Horror Box,

Always lusted after a Sinn-very understated but great watches.

But reckon it's a GMT Explorer for my next 'significant' birthday.

[Wessex Boy]

I have had the Pulsar Watch for about a year and like it, although the stop-watch is a bit small to use in flight. Ocassionally it stops for a few hours and re-starts all by itself, when it does that I revert to my Vostok Amphibian:

Vostok Amphibian: Vostok Amphibian Automatic AM 420634 @ www.sovietwatches.co.uk

31 jewel automatic movement, designed to survive EMF pulse of a Nucleur blast...even if your arm isn't

[twentytoofifty]

have to agree with Horror Box... love my Rolex Sub (prez from wife), not the most accurate time keeper but good to have if stuck on desert island waiting for local beauty to turn up (self winding, no battery..!)

am sure it would survive nuclear blast, but too nice to take into cockpit.... for that, my £15.99 Casio does the job..

for 1.4G... yes you're right, sad world isn't it, we're meant to be trained killers?

[luffers79]

Big Watch.

The stewardesses in my last airline confidentally predicted:-
BIG Watch - little dick.

[country calls]

I used my first Op Bonus to buy a TAG Heuer Formula One. Always wanted a posers watch, and I wanted my bonus spent on the beggar who earned it getting shot at rather than the latest gucci kitchen gadget demanded by CinC Domestic Front.

It is sat in a cupboard again with the hands wobbling around the face not attached to the spindle for the SECOND time.

Thats what a guilt complex gets you, should have spent the whole bonus (and some) on a Breitling etc, rather than a TAG and conscience jewellery for her who must be obeyed.

[Busta]

luffers79

I think the full text is "big watch, small cock, pays by cheque"

Nothing matters very much, most things don't matter at all.

[kluge]

1.4g has it right - what next "things to wear when flying" ?
I think there was a similar veined thread.

[Farfrompuken]

G-Shock

Having had a mid-det failure of my 'det digital' Watch, I got a $60 G-Shock from the BX.

3 Time Zones.
Solar powered so no battery faffs
decent back light
stacks of alarms, stopwatch & timer functions.

Cheap as chips and I'm wearing it pretty much all the time as I don't have to worry about it.

You can get a radio synchronized one for double the price, but I'm not sure it works in the desert.

[Captain Sensible]

I'm still absolutely traumatised from having to hand in my faithful 20 yr old Hamilton when I retired - I tried to explain to the F/S behind the counter at Stores that most firms give you a watch when you go, not take one off you; he didn't geddit! He allowed me to keep my sunglasses though, which was nice, but I promptly lost them in a snow drift in Zermatt, and I still have a pair of flying gloves somewhere they didn't want back. Sigh!

[Roadster280]

Alternatively, go for one of these ...

Citizen Skyhawk

Titanium, Solar (any light really!) Powered and mine only loses a couple of seconds every few months!

That's the old model. Later generation (AT model) has WWWV reception like the Waveceptor et al. Never need to set it, or change the battery.

Lots of variations in materials and colours:

Citizen Skyhawk Watches - Citizen from Princeton Watches

I found the titanium felt too light, almost plasticky. So I went for the stainless, though I can see why some might not, it is a bit heavy.

I'm fcuked if I understand how the slide rule works though. I can use it, but I don't understand how it works with non-linear divisions.

[Wessex Boy]

I have come across this place:
Werners Flying Watches, aviation watches, aristo web watches, wenger watches, seiko watches, elysee watches

Both the Aero 1912 and the Astroavia ranges look nice, anyone seen/tried/bought one?