/fa/ - Fashion

>>15448410
Yeah, I had the Skyhawk on black leather for a while. It wears better on the bracelet though, leather somehow amplifies how much of a dinner plate it is.

>>15407249
>>15407292
>>15407414
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the modern Navitimer-style pilot watch was never really a practical pilot tool, more of a piece of quasi-functional jewelry for pilots who liked bling and non-pilots who wanted some of that aviation cool factor.

GMT is a different story, these days they get used by travelers or international business people as dual time watches, with the GMT hand set to whatever second time zone is relevant, but the intent for pilots is to actually be set to GMT, or more accurately UTC, which in aviation is known as "Zulu time" and is used in lieu of local time zones for most aviation tasks, weather reports are given in zulu, flight plans are filed in zulu, etc. This is actually still a useful complication because you generally won't have another source of accurate zulu time at hand, especially when reading briefings and planning flights on the ground, and a mistake in time conversion can have pretty serious consequences. (Like being on the hook for search and rescue if you mess up and file your arrival time too early and they think you crashed.)

The X-33 and Aerospace are probably the most functional pilot tool watches on the market nowadays and I'm planning on getting one or the other in a few years. Right now I fly with a Citizen Skyhawk, which has a lot of useless bullshit but has that critical UTC display and is just a pretty cool piece of pilot bling at a relatively affordable price. (And, for what it's worth, doesn't actually look that huge on my wrist, that's just a result of the wide angle lens.)

>>15389927
>>15389933
As an actual pilot I really wish they'd do one as clean as the Gravitymaster there but with the digital sub-display of the Mudmaster. The one complication that's actually useful to a pilot is an easy to read second time zone (for Zulu Time/UTC) and the teeny tiny analog displays some watches have are useless. I wear a Citizen Skyhawk for flying and at least it has a digital second time display, but it'd be so nice to have a big one like the Mudmaster's.

Citizen Skyhawk A-T, pictured here in its natural habitat.