Aviator wrist-watches

[Builds By Baz]

My current Traser tritium watch is getting hard to see. The hands and face are almost the same colour and I can't tell the time at a glance, with or without my glasses.

 

What's reccomended for flying? Digital or analogue? White face? Smart watch?

 

Baz.

[Marty_d]

For a man of your talents, a tiny paintbrush and a tub of radioactive paint and the Traser will be good as new!

[BurnieM]

With most EFISs (electronic flight information system displays) and EFB (electronic flight book - iPad with mapping) having a time display watches are more a matter of personal preference than a requirement.

 

I am using a Citizen black face with white numbers.

Smaller dial than yours - Citizen watch

Edited Thursday at 09:50 PM by BurnieM

[T510]

I'm hoping the family take the not so subtle hints I have been dropping and I get a Garmin D2 Mach 2 for my birthday.

 

Alternatively if I get a decent bonus this year I will buy one myself

 

 

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1373810/pn/010-02905-30/

[facthunter]

Mount on dash. Have 24 hr dial with Zulu bezel and stop and elapse function. Nev

[djpacro]

2 hours ago, T510 said:

I'm hoping the family take the not so subtle hints I have been dropping and I get a Garmin D2 Mach 2 for my birthday. ...

I love my X15 https://www.aircraftspruce.com.au/catalog/pspages/garmin_x15.php an expensive toy but useful.

[440032]

VOSTOK for me. Manual winding.

[Reynard]

Time and compass - what more could you want ?

 

 

[Thruster88]

I remember a long time ago I had a watch with a stainless steel band. The reason I haven't forgotten it is because of the day I accidentally shorted the positive terminal on an car alternator with it, got very hot very quickly. 

[rgmwa]

I got one of these -  a Casio 200H. They're well known in the watch collecting fraternity as being cheap and reliable and come in different dial arrangements. Has a rotating bezel, which can be handy. I actually got two because I couldn't decide which dial design I liked better so I got both. In my opinion all you really need is a watch that is easy to read. I think analogue is better because the brain has to do less processing to interpret what it's seeing compared to a digital watch. My daughter gave me an expensive titanium `Pilot's Watch' a few years ago that came with an instruction book an inch thick that I need to read with a magnifying glass just to remember how to set the time. Looks good but is totally useless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by rgmwa

[BrendAn]

1 hour ago, Thruster88 said:

I remember a long time ago I had a watch with a stainless steel band. The reason I haven't forgotten it is because of the day I accidentally shorted the positive terminal on an car alternator with it, got very hot very quickly. 

its something you only do once.

[facthunter]

I did it working on the Battery of a C-172, which was in a confined space down the Back where I couldn't move quickly or remove it quickly. It got red hot almost instantly   Nev..