My main problem is finding something suitably pilot that will fit on her tiny little wrists!My dad used to fly large planes for a living (well , navigator then flight engineer) and for many years he would wear watches he got for free from magazines, or $10 "rolexes" from Singapore.
My main problem is finding something suitably pilot that will fit on her tiny little wrists!
It does, it's nothing special iirc.. They charge like a rhino for the fitting.
Battery, pressure test etc from your local Timsons should be about £15, and sometimes they do free batteries for life promotions.
Does she really want a 'pilot' watch ? .. only reason I ask is that they seem even less common amongst pilots than Submariners do in genuine sub-sea types.
Ultimately entirely up to her individual taste. Certainly what you say is true - you don't see many Breitling Navitimers and the like! And I suspect that the original long-distance pilot watch, the Rolex GMT-Master (designed for the pilots of Pan Am) isn't much used any more by aircrew.Does she really want a 'pilot' watch ? .. only reason I ask is that they seem even less common amongst pilots than Submariners do in genuine sub-sea types.
To be fair, the Navitimer comes from a time when people used slide rules and electronic computing power occupied an entire room. It probably fulfilled that function (never having liked the thing myself, I can only guess).Could never abide the Navitimer btw - always thought it was an overly cluttered, hard to read thing that was neither pretty nor functional.
These days, all these branded 'tool' watches are really just marketing bullsh*t. They have been surpassed by real 'tool' watches such as G-Shocks and dive computers. No real pilot, military officer or diver wants or needs a $5,000 'tool' watch.
I’d love you to point me to the BS marketing.
Judging by the plastic quartz cheapie our daughter is currently wearing, I'd guess not!I know nothing but are commercial pilots these days allowed to use their own watches for anything to do with the flight? Do they have to use the plane's (and I guess GPS) systems to tell the time?