Pilots’ Watches

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Pilots watches are available globally and WatchTime covers many best pilot watches and outstanding pilot watch models from many price ranges: Breitling pilot watches, IWC pilot watch models, Bell & Ross pilots watches and pilot watch editions from Citizen, Hamilton and other pilot watch brands. Make sure to go to our pilot watch database where we have dozens of new top 10 pilot watches including men’s pilot watches, women’s pilot watches and watch prices.

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FEATURE

7 Milestone Omega Watches, from 1892 to Today

In its long history, Omega has contributed numerous important watches and innovations to the world of watchmaking. In this feature, we chronicle seven of the 25 most important watches Omega has ever made, including the Omega Seamaster, the Omega Constellation and the Omega De Ville.

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Jul 12, 2018 by Gisbert Brunner

Promotion

Baume & Mercier’s new Clifton Baumatic: Lengthened Service Intervals

A mechanical watch movement is a complex mechanism comprising numerous mobile miniature components. Their perpetual interaction results in friction and wear ultimately influencing the smooth running of the movement. This is one of the reasons why watches have to be returned for regular service. The new Clifton Baumatic from Baume & Mercier with the maison’s...

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Oct 15, 2018 by WatchTime

DIVE WATCH BASICS

The Basics of the Rotating Divers’ Watch Bezel

In this article on divers' watches, we take a look at what is probably the most distinctive element of a dive watch: the rotating bezel.

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Jul 6, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

HAPPY JULY 4TH!

Five U.S.-Exclusive Watches for Independence Day

The United States celebrates its most patriotic holiday today, July 4, and what better way to show off both American pride and horological savvy than by sporting one of the rare special-edition timepieces aimed exclusively at the U.S. market? We rounded up five, including a few that bear the red, white, and blue colors of Old Glory.

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Jul 4, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

POLL:

Vote on the Winner of WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest #2

Capping off another successful WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest submission period, here are our top 10 images of the 300-plus wrist shots submitted to us through e-mail and Instagram over the past two weeks. Please vote on what you think is the best image based on composition, creativity, and image quality. The top five finishers will receive...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

FEATURE:

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Tutima Grand Flieger Classic Chronograph

Of the many noteworthy World War II watches, there have been few, if any, designs that have become more recognizable and influential than the original B-Uhr (Beobachtungs-Uhren, or observation watch) pilots’ watch of the 1940s. Excluding this general style as a whole, still seen in watches from historical companies IWC, Laco, and Stowa, among others, the individual...

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Jun 24, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH REVIEW

Full Force: Reviewing the Tutima M2 Pioneer Chronograph

The Tutima M2 Pioneer Chronograph is ready and able to continue the successful heritage of its predecessor, the Tutima Military Chronograph. The new M2 edition exceeds the specifications set for the earlier model by the military and is now available to civilians and professionals alike. Read on for an in-depth review from the WatchTime archives.

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Jun 20, 2018 by Martina Richter

PROMOTION:

Gucci Presents #TimeToParr: An Uncommon Photographic Journey

Embracing Instagram’s creative landscape over the past three years with dedicated projects in which artists play with House motifs, Gucci has published and promoted these special works with a series of hashtags. Now, for the first time, the House is collaborating with a single artist on an Instagram project. Exploring the nature of time and...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Ref. IW377724

About a month ago, via the Instagram of its CEO, Christophe Grainger-Herr, IWC Schaffhausen casually released the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Ref. IW377724 to the market. This new watch is a conglomeration of historical designs by the brand, taking its foremost influences from the legendary WWII-era Mark 11 military watch, the early-1990s IWC Doppelchronograph reference 3711;...

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Jun 10, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

Blackout: 17 Black-on-Black Watches

Black-on-black watches, read our review of 17 "all-black" watches, including the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver, the Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute Blacksteel and the Ulysse Nardin Blacksea.

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Jun 7, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

PROMOTION

LIV Watches’ “Breakthrough” Campaign Launches Four Limited-Edition Watches

LIV Watches is a direct-to-consumer microbrand founded in 2014, whose stock-in-trade is “crafting durable Swiss timepieces built to suit the modern man.” The first watch the company launched on Kickstarter was the GX1, at the end of 2014, which was fully funded within the first 11 hours. Just over a year later, another Kickstarter campaign...

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May 31, 2018 by WatchTime

Feeling Blue: 25 Watches With Blue Dials and Blue Straps

We take a look at 25 stunning blue-on-blue watches, with blue dials and blue straps, released within recent years, from watch brands like Patek Philippe, Rolex, TAG Heuer, Zenith and many others.

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May 23, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Bell & Ross BR V2-93 GMT 24H: Triple Time Zone Tracker

Few watch manufacturers can claim as much direct aviation-instrument influence across their entire portfolio as Bell & Ross, and few horological complications are more useful to a pilot than an indication of multiple time zones — so what better brand to produce a timepiece capable of displaying not just two but three time zones simultaneously than the one with the big ampersand logo and dashboard DNA? Here is the lowdown on the new BR v2-93 GMT 24H.

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May 18, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

BASELWORLD 2018:

Bell & Ross Takes to the Air With BR V1-92 and BR V2-94 Racing Birds

Bell & Ross, a watch brand whose designs are rooted in aviation history, has in recent years entered into partnerships to produce aeronautically engineered land vehicles that the company in turn used as design templates for limited-edition timepieces — like the B-Rocket motorcycle in 2014, the AeroGT concept automobile in 2016, and last year’s Bellytanker....

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Apr 2, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

BASELWORLD 2018:

A Bomber Drops at Basel: Breitling’s WWII-Inspired Navitimer Super 8 (Updated With Live Photos)

As most of us now know, Breitling’s release of its streamlined, vintage-influenced, and arguably more elegant Navitimer 8 collection earlier this year represented a new direction for the Swiss brand. But for all of those Breitling purists who may have fretted that Breitling was backing off from the big, hyper-masculine aviation timepieces that made its...

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Mar 28, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Laco Pilot Watch Original Replica Type A

This week, we return to the classic B-Uhr (Beobachtungs-Uhren, or observation watch) pilots' watch design, with this series produced by the historical manufacturer Laco. For conciseness, we’ll be focusing our eye on the brand’s most historically-informed series, called the Replica models, the Type A Replica 45 and Type A Replica 55.

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Mar 18, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

PHOTO GALLERY

Piece Time – Distinctive Watch Parts, Chapter 3: Crowns and Push-Pieces

A watch’s design is the sum of its so-called “appearance parts:” hands, dial, crown, bracelet, et cetera. In this third chapter in our series on the distinctive parts of watches, we put the spotlight on the different types of crowns and push-pieces. To many, these two components alone may suffice to classify a watch as elegant or sporty.

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Mar 8, 2018 by WatchTime

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Montblanc 1858 Automatic Chronograph

Since Montblanc’s 1858 collection was first released in 2015, it has served as the host for watches inspired by the erstwhile Minerva marque. Montblanc acquired the Minerva manufacture in 2006 and has done well to use this company’s long design history to enhance its own novel series. This year was no different, with Montblanc expanding...

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Mar 4, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Into the Wild Blue (and Black) Yonder: IWC’s New Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII Laureus Edition

Earlier this week, at the 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco, IWC launched its 12th special-edition timepiece in support of, and in cooperation with, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. The watch, from the Schaffhausen-based brand's Pilot's Watch Mark XVIII series, offers an eye-catching combo of a sleek black ceramic case with a deep blue dial.

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Feb 27, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

GALLERY

Piece Time – Distinctive Watch Parts, Chapter 2: Dials

A watch’s design is the sum of its so-called “appearance parts:” hands, dial, crown, bracelet, et cetera. In the second chapter in our series on the distinctive parts of watches, we focus on dials. The dial is the face of the timepiece and reveals much about its character. Click through the gallery to see some popular dial styles and layouts.

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Feb 27, 2018 by WatchTime

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Hanhart Pioneer One Limited Edition

Hanhart is a German watch brand that, for the better part of the twentieth century, was a staple in the production of pilots’ watches and chronographs in Europe. In more recent years, the brand’s focus has remained across the pond with little means of distribution in the United States, yet their watches — especially their...

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Feb 18, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH TO WATCH

Midnight Flyer: Introducing the Bell & Ross BR03-92 Nightlum

Bell & Ross adds to its fleet of BR03-92 "professional aviation" watches — which recently welcomed a black camo version as well as a model that evoked the night-lit tarmac of airport runways — with the new Nightlum edition, a timepiece singularly suitable for nighttime navigation.

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Feb 8, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Zenith Launches New Pilot Cronometro Tipo CP-2 Flyback

Back in 2016, Zenith caught the eye of vintage-military-watch aficionados with its release of the Pilot Cronometro Tipo CP-2, an aviators' chronograph that paid tribute to the now-legendary "Cairelli" watch the brand made for Italian Navy and Air Force pilots in the 1960s. This year Zenith followed it up with a new version incorporating a flyback function and available in two vintage-look cases.

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Feb 3, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

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