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I'm a "low-to-mid range" watch lover. By that I mean, I don't spend many thousands on a watch, but have several watches that are decent relatively affordable watches. I once came very close to buying the Blue Angels version of that Navihawk. Instead, I ended up with the now discontinued Satellite Wave GPS Promaster Titanium. I love this thing for its GPS tech and that fact that, despite the size, it is light as a feather.
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And I thought I was the odd man out.
I got a nice Tag Heuer Twin Time for a graduation in 2010, but my daily wear is an old Glycine GMT Airman (24 hour dial and a bezel to set GMT or local). A great watch when I was flying C-130s across time zones, albeit slowly. Bought the original Glycine in 1977 and replaced due to loss in 1993 - keeps on ticking!
I got a nice Tag Heuer Twin Time for a graduation in 2010, but my daily wear is an old Glycine GMT Airman (24 hour dial and a bezel to set GMT or local). A great watch when I was flying C-130s across time zones, albeit slowly. Bought the original Glycine in 1977 and replaced due to loss in 1993 - keeps on ticking!
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The Glycine Airman is a very nice choice.
I mostly collect American railroad grade watches, but I do have a handful of old pilots watches.
A Bulova Accutron Astronaut which was worn by the X-15 pilots and a few of the early Astronauts, like Gordo Cooper.
A Longines Weems, the first watch with a rotating bezel, and designed for what PVH Weems called "avigation" a century ago. The idea is that you use the bezel to set the seconds, this was before hacking movements, so you could synchronize your watch and have an accurate time at take off. Weems developed a school for avigation, came up with star altitude curves and even taught Lindbergh celestial navigation a year after his transatlantic crossing. A really fascinating guy who contributed to air navigation for over fifty years.
This Longines is an A11 used by the USAC and other branches. This particular example was worn by a marine pilot in the Pacific. It should have a second crown used for locking the bezel in place, but is missing it. That is one thing I will have to look for.
And I have another pilots watch, this one a Longines Hour Angle Watch developed in conjunction with Charles Lindbergh. This design is an outgrowth from the original Longines Weems design. It still utilizes the inner dial that can be synchronized for the seconds, but incorporates a rotating bezel divided into fifteen degrees. The idea here being that you would set the bezel to Greenwich's hour angle shoot an azimuth to obtain your hour angle and then use Weems system to calculate your your distance from Greenwich.
Lastly, this is a stock photo of one of the original Longines Weems with the inner rotating dial for setting the seconds. You can see how the design led to both of the above Longines I own.
I mostly collect American railroad grade watches, but I do have a handful of old pilots watches.
A Bulova Accutron Astronaut which was worn by the X-15 pilots and a few of the early Astronauts, like Gordo Cooper.
A Longines Weems, the first watch with a rotating bezel, and designed for what PVH Weems called "avigation" a century ago. The idea is that you use the bezel to set the seconds, this was before hacking movements, so you could synchronize your watch and have an accurate time at take off. Weems developed a school for avigation, came up with star altitude curves and even taught Lindbergh celestial navigation a year after his transatlantic crossing. A really fascinating guy who contributed to air navigation for over fifty years.
This Longines is an A11 used by the USAC and other branches. This particular example was worn by a marine pilot in the Pacific. It should have a second crown used for locking the bezel in place, but is missing it. That is one thing I will have to look for.
And I have another pilots watch, this one a Longines Hour Angle Watch developed in conjunction with Charles Lindbergh. This design is an outgrowth from the original Longines Weems design. It still utilizes the inner dial that can be synchronized for the seconds, but incorporates a rotating bezel divided into fifteen degrees. The idea here being that you would set the bezel to Greenwich's hour angle shoot an azimuth to obtain your hour angle and then use Weems system to calculate your your distance from Greenwich.
Lastly, this is a stock photo of one of the original Longines Weems with the inner rotating dial for setting the seconds. You can see how the design led to both of the above Longines I own.
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I have to ask: Is there a way to tell the time?
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Wow, I had never heard of that brand. Just looked it up - that's a very cool looking watch that just went on my bucket list!
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C130 with the T56 or AE2100D3?
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Bas, if you are looking for a watch that has been to space, the Glycine Airman has been there and done that. In 1965 Pete Conrad wore his during Gemini 5.
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I have a nice Accutron that I inherited from my Dad.It was given to
him when he retired.For years I couldn't find anyplace to get a new battery
for it,but finally found a place here locally that does.
I also wear a Citizen watch that my Mother bought in Hong Kong
years ago that works great.