In the early days of aviation, watches played a vital role in ensuring that pilots completed their flights safely. Designed with large faces for maximum legibility, these chronographs helped pilots calculate airspeed, compensate for the wind and calibrate airplane functions. While all the dials and doodads on a cockpit’s instrument panel now perform these functions, the pilot watch is more...read more
In the early days of aviation, watches played a vital role in ensuring that pilots completed their flights safely. Designed with large faces for maximum legibility, these chronographs helped pilots calculate airspeed, compensate for the wind and calibrate airplane functions. While all the dials and doodads on a cockpit’s instrument panel now perform these functions, the pilot watch is more popular than ever, with black-faced chronographs celebrating a new heyday. That’s what led us to craft our Pilot’s Classic Chronograph.
