The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)

But need to know what would be most suitable!

What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )

Dave

These look nice.

http://www.watchbuys.com/Yaeger.htm


"Dave" > wrote in message
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>
> The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>
> But need to know what would be most suitable!
>
> What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>
> Dave

"Dave" > wrote in message
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>
> The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>
> But need to know what would be most suitable!
>
> What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>
> Dave

Others may disagree with me, but I'd stay away from a 'pilots' watch.

I bought a Citizen WR 100 pilot style watch a few years ago. It has a lot of
features/dials/etc., but not really practical to use while flying. I then
bought a Timex dual-time zone watch (digital & analog) and use it for every
day while the Citizen sits collecting dust. On the Timex, I set the analog
to the local time and use the digital for Zulu time. The Timex is less than
a fourth of the cost of the Citizen.

A similar Timex can be found here:
http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&did=19&product_id=6356
or on eBay...

-Greg B.

Wifey got me a Seiko Pilot Chronograph w/ white face when I got my
ticket. It's got E6B bezel and a BUNCH of little dials, a "little
watch inside the big watch that I've set to GMT. Ten years now and
still ticking. I swim with it on in the pool and at the beach with my
girls every summer since I got it.

Never had any trouble w/ it except for one time when I took it to a
kiosk at the mall to get the bat changed. The girl at the watch kiosk
had trouble putting the back plate back on she turned around to where I
couldn't see what she was doing and gave me the watch back when she was
done. Four months later I swam w/ it and got the watch "foggy". I
took it to a jewler and he said that the girl musta left out the O-ring
gasket because there wasn't one in there. He cleaned it up, put in new
bats and O-ring and it's been fine ever since.

The dumb B*tch and the kiosk itsn't there anymore.

Everyone who's look at my watch likes it. I'm very happy w/ it.

> Everyone who's look at my watch likes it. I'm very happy w/ it.

Yes, but can you tell what time it is at a glance?

In my experience, every so-called "pilot's watch" does a great job of doing
everything but telling time.

I finally opted for a simple Timex Expedition, with a nice, bold blue analog
face, big white numbers, glow-in-the-dark hands, and the digital
day/date/timer/dual time window.

With a light, of course. Thirty bucks, indestructible, and I can tell what
time it is at a glance.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I agree too, I've got a nice little lightweight Casio quartz watch with
a regular analog dial and glowing hands plus a small digital LCD window
at the bottom for the same reason as you. It works great for flying
purposes.

I once had a big old "Aviator's Chronograph" watch with four different
dials and a heading bug ring and it was way too big, heavy and
cumbersome to fool with. The massive stainless steel watchband kept
painfully ripping the hairs out of my arm too.

>The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>
>But need to know what would be most suitable!

Depends on how rich your "dude" is, but such a watch doesn't have to
cost a lot of bucks. I bought myself a Pulsar--cheap version of the
Seiko-- for a measly $63 from Heartland, and it keeps almost perfect
time. Gains two or three seconds a month.

Only thing I don't like: It has a red sweep second hand and a black
face, and the contrast isn't great enough in some light conditions.
Don't get that color combination.

vince norris

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
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>> Everyone who's look at my watch likes it. I'm very happy w/ it.
>
> Yes, but can you tell what time it is at a glance?
>
> In my experience, every so-called "pilot's watch" does a great job of
> doing everything but telling time.
>
> I finally opted for a simple Timex Expedition, with a nice, bold blue
> analog face, big white numbers, glow-in-the-dark hands, and the digital
> day/date/timer/dual time window.
>
> With a light, of course. Thirty bucks, indestructible, and I can tell
> what time it is at a glance.

That's the one I have, and you're certainly right about the "indestructible"
part! :~)

A few years ago my wife bought me a Pulsar Pilots Chronograph. Probably
about $350 or so. E6B dial, the works. The numbers and all are so small as
to be unreadable. I wear it for everything EXCEPT flying.
--
Matt

---------------------
Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

I'm on my second Luminox with the tritium-illuminated dial. (Wore the
first one playing racquetball and slammed it into the wall -- no style
points for grace and beauty.) Its only trick is to be readable in
total darkness, but it does that extraordinarily well.

The first one was anonymous; got it at the Whole Earth store in
Berkeley, but neither anonymous watch nor store is around anymore.
This one is the "Navy Seal" version, bought at West Marine. I don't
chew broken glass and strive to get arrested by Tijuana cops for the
fun of breaking out of jail, but even in total darkness, I'm unlikely
to get mistaken for a Navy Seal, so I don't feel as if I'm sailing
under false colors.

Don

I as much a cheap ******* as the next guy :<) but I'm not gonna look a
gifted horse in the mouth. I bought a simple Timex for myself when I
was single, had a Real Rolex once (a gift from a middle-eastern friend
who asked for it back and pawned it while we were loosing our arse in
Vegas). The Timex still worked up to a few years ago, if I shake it,
it is one 'o them that you have to keep in motion to wind-up. The
housing(plated cast zinc I believe) got all corroded and wifey finally
threw it out w/o my knowledge.

Have a Citizen Navihawk in use now for several years. Analog+digital (dual)
time, several useful options. Not cheap but I can recommend it.

Harald


"Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>
> The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>
> But need to know what would be most suitable!
>
> What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>
> Dave

>>>>Have a Citizen Navihawk in use now for several years<<<<

I got the same watch as a gift from my wife 7-8 years ago (Blue Angels
edition) I think she paid $250 for it - classy looking watch and not
too "wannabe" looking **thank god** but the rotating flight computer
bezel is totally unusable IMO. I have the analog set to local time and
the digital set to Zulu time.

Santa brought me one last year, unannounced, unrequested. It's one of the
Torgoen models that you see advertised in all the catalogs. Turns out it
wasn't very expensive and it's a fairly simple watch. 4 hands. Hour,
Minute, Second, and GMT. Nothing more. It's big enough to read at a
glance, numbers are huge, and everything glows in the dark. I love it.
Often tell Santa it's one of the best Christmas gifts she's given me.

Jim

"Dave" > wrote in message
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>
> The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>
> But need to know what would be most suitable!
>
> What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>
> Dave

I recently bought a Casio G-Shock Waveceptor. Solar powered, atomic.

I don't have to wind it. I don't have to replace batteries. I don't have to
set it. It even changed to EST from EDT at the correct time.

Cost me $69. It's got big enough numbers for me to read, and has a
backlight.


"Flyingmonk" > wrote in message
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> I as much a cheap ******* as the next guy :<) but I'm not gonna look a
> gifted horse in the mouth. I bought a simple Timex for myself when I
> was single, had a Real Rolex once (a gift from a middle-eastern friend
> who asked for it back and pawned it while we were loosing our arse in
> Vegas). The Timex still worked up to a few years ago, if I shake it,
> it is one 'o them that you have to keep in motion to wind-up. The
> housing(plated cast zinc I believe) got all corroded and wifey finally
> threw it out w/o my knowledge.
>

Good luck on March 11, 2007.

"Steve Foley" > wrote in message
news:Ce_jf.12$6Z5.4@trndny02...
>I recently bought a Casio G-Shock Waveceptor. Solar powered, atomic.
>
> I don't have to wind it. I don't have to replace batteries. I don't
> have to
> set it. It even changed to EST from EDT at the correct time.
>
> Cost me $69. It's got big enough numbers for me to read, and has a
> backlight.
>

http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html#chart

"sfb" > wrote in message news:qi_jf.8$5V1.7@trnddc02...
> Good luck on March 11, 2007.

lol...my thoughts exactly.

I love Daylight Saving Time. I wish we had it all year 'round.

But adding six weeks of DST per year for the purpose of saving an
inconsequential amount of oil is ridiculous, especially given how many
time-aware devices will either have to be fixed, or are simply unfixable.

If they had said "we just like having the light an hour later for longer", I
could buy that. But instead, they pretend they're doing something useful,
while actually creating a huge amount of work and headaches for a wide
variety of people and industries.

Ugh.

Harald T wrote:
> Have a Citizen Navihawk in use now for several years. Analog+digital (dual)
> time, several useful options. Not cheap but I can recommend it.
>
> Harald
>
>
> "Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> ...
>
>>The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me! :)
>>
>>But need to know what would be most suitable!
>>
>>What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>>
>>Dave
>
>
>
I have the Eco-drive SKYHAWK Citizen. It performed poorly until I got
glasses.

Doesn't matter for atomic clocks. The sender in Colorado sends out the correct
time, with the appropriate DST change: http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/stations/wwvb.htm
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/stations/wwvbtimecode.htm

-Joe

sfb wrote on 12/02/05 08:06:

> Good luck on March 11, 2007.
>
> "Steve Foley" > wrote in message
> news:Ce_jf.12$6Z5.4@trndny02...
>> I recently bought a Casio G-Shock Waveceptor. Solar powered, atomic.
>>
>> I don't have to wind it. I don't have to replace batteries. I don't
>> have to
>> set it. It even changed to EST from EDT at the correct time.
>>
>> Cost me $69. It's got big enough numbers for me to read, and has a
>> backlight.
>>
>
> http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html#chart
>
>

Robet Coffey > wrote in
news:Kw0kf.1029$xg1.550@trnddc03:

> Harald T wrote:
>> Have a Citizen Navihawk in use now for several years. Analog+digital
>> (dual) time, several useful options. Not cheap but I can recommend
>> it.
>>
>> Harald
>>
>>
>> "Dave" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> ...
>>
>>>The dude offered to leave a "pilots" watch under the tree for me!
>>>:)
>>>
>>>But need to know what would be most suitable!
>>>
>>>What should I suggest! (brand / model etc. )
>>>
>>>Dave
>>
>>
>>
> I have the Eco-drive SKYHAWK Citizen. It performed poorly until I got
> glasses.

I have the Blue Angels edition of that watch. I love the fact that you
never have to replace the battery. Also, the ease with which you can
change time zones without changing the zulu time dial is great.

>>>
>> I have the Eco-drive SKYHAWK Citizen. It performed poorly until I got
>> glasses.
>
>I have the Blue Angels edition of that watch. I love the fact that you
>never have to replace the battery. Also, the ease with which you can
>change time zones without changing the zulu time dial is great.


I too have the Blue Angel edition of the Skyhawk Eco-Drive and I am
happy with it.

Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
See my online aerial photo album at
http://flying.4alexanders.com

I've been flying for 10 years and never understood the need for a pilot
watch. A garden variety digital watch has everything you need. One
feature that I look for is a push button on the face instead of its
side to turn the backlight on. Timex CR1620 has this. It cost $40. It
also has a digital compass, which at first sight may appear to be
useful, but it is useless.

>"I have the Blue Angels edition of that watch".

This one seems to best bang (or "tick)" for the buck...

I don't care for the blue/yellow thing, but from the pix I
have, I think it would be easier to read the bezel, (white on blue)
than the all metal surface of the standard model..

Anybody like to comment on this?

Thanks to all who responded!

Dave

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:20:36 -0800, Mike 'Flyin'8'
> wrote:

>
>>>>
>>> I have the Eco-drive SKYHAWK Citizen. It performed poorly until I got
>>> glasses.
>>
>>I have the Blue Angels edition of that watch. I love the fact that you
>>never have to replace the battery. Also, the ease with which you can
>>change time zones without changing the zulu time dial is great.
>
>
>I too have the Blue Angel edition of the Skyhawk Eco-Drive and I am
>happy with it.
>
>Mike Alexander
>PP-ASEL
>Temecula, CA
>See my online aerial photo album at
>http://flying.4alexanders.com