Modern pilot watches aren’t really made for aviators anymore, despite them retaining all the key characteristics that made them tool watches in the first place. Advances such as electrical navigation has largely made the notion of using only paper, pencil and the slide rule on your trusty Breitling to make important calculations obsolete, while most pilots actually default to quartz models because of their accuracy.
Despite pilot watches now being disassociated from the cockpits that formed them in the first place, the evolution of the pilot watch tells the story of our endeavours to take to the skies,