@Mad Dog , Love the Elgin. I tend to end up with the Hamiltons 992's. Couldn't the Railroad Engineers be sort of considered pilots. Timetables/schedules, long distance, passenger count, freight. Just a thought.
An exquisite thread indeed. In all my flights i used to wear this: But i do consider myself lucky enough to own these as well: This is actually my wife's watch... And these are long sold: X
Apollo 17 lunar EVA training featured a Rolex GMT master pilot's watch worn on a lunar surface flown A7LB spacesuit... IMHO it doesn't get any better... Read the developing story at RolexMagazine ---> https://www.rolexmagazine.com/ .
The equivalent of a wrist shot! Omega Mark V ‘aviator watch’ from 1917, World War I. Ref.123.19, calibre 19’’’LOB Cs. The watch clipped into a bracket on the instrument panel – a real pilot’s watch! Presumably one of the earliest watches produced particularly for pilots.
Five pages on OmegaForums and no ‘thin arrow’! Well-known from 1953, chronometer-standard calibre 30 T3 283RS, government marking 6B/542. Anti-magnetic with a 1mm ‘mumetal’ screening disc inside the caseback, produced because of growing concerns about the amount of magnetic influence in cockpits. Withdrawn because of concerns about the radium lume – re-issued re-dialled with tritium lume with the ‘fat arrow’ (a couple of examples in the thread above). So many concerns! The fore-runner of the Railmaster.
My Navitimer - and I have used the slide rule function for flights(!) My regular Speedy that I sometimes use to time flights. Poor picture but I was probably looking at the view out the window more...
Dibs!!! Wow love the majetek, the sky chiefs, and pretty much every one of them. The Glascutte is amazing.
The modern Speedy Gonzales Moonwatch is a good watch for the pointy end...and if you have an Omega replica NASA strap handy...it’s a good loaner watch to plastic NASA astronauts...
Not only my first pilot watch, but my only watch, pilot or otherwise, for quite a few years! Ultimately, I got fed up with the 'kinetic' rattle.