Are there any "pilot" watches that are actually helpful for pilots?

On Nov 16, 6:31 am, es330td wrote:
I am in the market for a new watch and thought that if I am going to
be a pilot I would see if there was something that I could use to
assist me in flying. My first thought was that something that was
Indiglo with larger numbers so I could see it easily at night would be
good as would one with two time zones so I can have one set to Zulu
and one to local. A countdown timer and stopwatch might come in
handy.

I went looking on the 'Net and found watches with compasses and
altimeters and even an E6-B but I question the value of those. If I
am ever in a situation where my altimeter, gyro, wet compass and both
GPS units , one a battery powered 96C, that show me heading and
altitude in the plane have failed I should lose my license for not
putting down long before I have to rely on a compass or altimeter in a
wris****ch.

For the people who have flown, have any of you found a watch with any
special features that actually helped you in performing your piloting
tasks?

Thanks

Those fancy pilot watches are very helpful to the owners of
the factories that make them. They make lots of money off our desire
to look important. I have owned numerous types of watches over the
years, and found that very few of the features ever get used. A
lighted dial is nice, as is an alarm. I fix airplanes, too, and find
that my work destroys watches so I buy $40 units that serve perfectly
well enough in flight. Who needs a calculator watch when you have a
whizwheel as well? Or a stopwatch when there's one on the yoke? And
who needs a GPS watch? The guys who can't read a map, I suppose. The
watch won't work in the airplane anyway; too much metal in the way.
Petter Garrison once had an article if FLYING magazine about
just this sort of thing. He spoke of the guys around the airport who
sported flight suits and big watches and other pilot stuff, and said
that he noticed that these guys mostly couldn't fly worth poop. As he
sat there observing all this, a cropduster landed with a delicate
squeak, exactly on the TD zone, rolled right down the centerline and
taxied to its truck, turning precisely into position with inches to
spare. No wasted movement, nothing that could be considered remotely
dangerous or embarrassing. A real expert. The guy that got out? Wore a
tattered logger jacket and stained ball cap.
Which pilot do you want to be?

Dan