Tags are nice too... :D

AB (Forgot to look at Kingy's watch collection cos she was too busy playing with his cub!)

I wear the Seiko military, very clear and easy to use in flight.

Nobody has mentioned the Sinn pilot's chronographs - see http://www.chronomaster.co.uk/Sinn%2...nt%20Stock.htm these are lovely timepieces.

Also rather fancy a Tag Carrera ...

I have an Avia from Argos too (!) which I use at night, as it has a light (something most of the £1000's of pounds watches seem to have forgotten about!) and I can leave it permanently set to UTC. Not very accurate, though - gains about 5secs a month.

I mostly wear a Citizen Eco-Drive Skyhawk, since I like (a) the rechargeable solar cell battery, and (b) the slide-rule around the edge for time/distance calculations: set your speed against the 60 mark and you can do quite calculations in flight.

Tim

I've got an old Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute which has a manual movement and a 24HR face - looks similar to an Old Navitimer.

It's beautifully accurate and the simpler manual movement (no date function) is rugged as h*ll.

I use it when travelling across a lot of timezones, as you can keep it on zulu and stay oriented.

But I'd never use it for flying, where a Seiko quartz chronograph does the job equally well and would cost a lot less to replace if it got bust or lost.

PS: Kingy, the Cosmonaute was developed for the Mercury programme when men were men :D

Flap40

The same is said of ocean sailors.....''nice big watch you've got there, sorry to hear about your dick":(

Breitlings WILL let you down. My Aerospace 100m failed after only 5 years - let in water whilst swimming in nightstop hotel pool. Our local Breiling agent said they generally fail around the crown seal after 3 years! Where does it say that in the brochure?

From now on I'll be the guy wearing a nice cheap waterproof and (just as) accurate Casio in the pool!

Oh yes, by the way, I'll have to fork out over £300 to get a new mechanism if I want to continue to be a jerk and wear my Breitling again!

IronHen,

I think you’re wrong to say that Breitlings WILL let you down… MAY let you down, or CAN let you down, but not WILL! I’ve had my aerospace for 7 years now and have never had a thing go wing with it… As for my B1… Touch wood, so far it’s been just as reliable at the Aerospace!

I’d recommend one any day!
:ok:

I have a Speedmaster Pro, which my wife bought me as a present after I completed the PPL (I am so spoiled). It works well, and the stopwatch is easy to use and read.:ok: I do wear it while flying spamcans and the like, but not sailplanes or any other aircraft where I am likely to bash it into something; the old Timex Ironman comes into play then.;)

Breitling Aerospace - two tone titanium strap etc

Bought as a wedding present for me not long after completing the PPL - don't use it in the air as I find any watch a bit too fiddly - a simple stopwatch or the timer on the ADF is perfectly adequate and generally much easier IMHO.

It's a very nice watch which I always wanted and am quite ahppy to wear.

TZ

Got a Breitling Chronomat got it cos
a) Its dead pretty
b) Shop told me it will appreciate as there is a ready collectors market


Its sod all use as a navigational instrument the numbers round the dial are too small for a normal human to see. I use a digital stop watch, the kind that games teachers use cost £3.99!

Has anyone tried the vibrating alarm watches (as sold by Sporty's in the US)? They are suggesting they could be useful for timing approaches, &c.

Tim

watches
 

try the suunto vector, not designed for flying but a useful little thing (well, fairly big actually). Altimeter, barometer, compass etc, etc.