What is the best aviation watch (Zulu time)?

[Coool Hand Luke]

I have an Omega. It's average at keeping accurate time (actually probably below average considering what it cost.

I mostly use my Breitling B-1, it only lost 15-sec over the past year. A cheaper alternative to the B-1 is the Breitling Professional (under a $1000). If it's an option, try buying it in Deleware...no tax.

I purchased both my more expensive watches from AR Morris. Good people, good prices...be prepared to negotiate some. They are used to pilots buying watches from them from all over the country.



[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A R Morris Jewelers[/FONT] 802 Market Street
Wilmington DE 19801

http://www.armorrisjewelers.com/

 

[Rxflyer]

Try a Citizen Navitach, if you can find one. You can set the digital display in the center for any of a bunch of places, including Zulu. Has an alarm, etc. I think I got mine on sale at the local jeweler for about $165.

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

[Obligatory Troll Post Warning]

I wear my Spongbob Squarepants watch I got free in a box of cereal. I get some funny looks sometimes, but the price was right and the chicks dig it...

Woman: Awww, your child gave you a watch and you're wearing it, how nice!

Me: Um...yea, actually, it's was my sister's kid, yea, that's it...

Woman: Your sister? Want to get a cup of coffee?

Me: Sure.

Happened more than once...

Nu

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Hey I like Sponge Bob as much as the next guy, but I have my standards.

Woman: What kind of car do you drive?

NuGuy: A mini-van

Woman: A mini-van?

NuGuy: Yea, I pick-up orphans on my days off and drive them to school.

All the rest of us: barfing

 

[NuGuy]

Hey I like Sponge Bob as much as the next guy, but I have my standards.

Woman: What kind of car do you drive?

NuGuy: A mini-van

Woman: A mini-van?

NuGuy: Yea, I pick-up orphans on my days off and drive them to school.

All the rest of us: barfing

Hehe,

Barf all you want....

Rest of you: Barfing, alone, surfing the 'net on a Saturday night.

Me: Out with da ladies that fell for the watch gag...but I'll remember the mini-van line...that's a good one.

Next up: my dog rental service next to the park.

Nu

 

[Princedietrich]

do you have a link for one of these?

Unfortunately no, but it shouldn't be difficult to spot a decent one in the display case. I don't think I've ever been to a mall that didn't have a Dakota kiosk in there somewhere.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Why spend so much on watches. Conspicuous consumption at its best. I prefer to have a less flashy watch.

 

[Booker]

Why spend so much on watches. Conspicuous consumption at its best. \

Asked and answered. imp:

I have a Citizen Navihawk that I received as a gift eight years ago. I've had to send it in twice to have the movement replaced. Fortunately, it was under warranty both times and hasn't crapped out since then. However, the experience has left me less than impressed.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

the luxury watches don't keep accurate time and cost mucho to fix...

The casio marine watches are the best deal.. Large watch.. analog face with a digital screen at the bottom. Three time zones...

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-40,GGLG:en&q=casio+marine+amw

The "pilot" watches with the mutli dials and bells and whistles are for show and have limited praticality....

Maybe Frank Worsley would've used one....

 

[A Squared]

What is the best aviation watch (Zulu time)?

Depends on what you mean by "best". Best means different things to different people.

If by best, you mean one that keeps time most accurately, practiacly any inexpensive quartz watch will keep time much better then a 2k-10k swiss "chronometer"

 

[Swass]

Where will you be when that battery on your quartz cheapo takes a dump?

 

[A Squared]

Where will you be when that battery on your quartz cheapo takes a dump?

Where? Well, if I'm somewhere where time is critical, I'll proabaly be someplace where I have access to numerous methods of reliably determining the time. Where will you be when your swiss chronometer takes a dump? ...and don't even attempt to suggest they never fail. I'd be willing to wager that changing batteries in a quartz watch occurs less frequntly than unscheduled maintenece in a swiss watch. Besides, I've never had a battery fail unexpectedly, typically what happens is the watch stops keeping time accurately, and starts keeping time like a swiss chronometer; losing a couple of seconds a day instead of the more normal a couple of seconds a month.

Sorry, you are doomed to abject failure if you're trying to justify a multi-thousand dollar swiss watch on either reliability or accuracy. It's a vanity purchase, plain and simple. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's your money, but lets be honest about what it is: Expensive and unnecessary jewelry.

 

[Swass]

Here's the difference:

Walk into some of the meeting's I frequently have to with a Casio G Shock on your wrist and you lose. Literally and Figuratively. Rolex, Patek, IWC, Omega, Breguet, Cartier,etc. They may not be the best at timekeeping, unnecessary they aren't; they're essential. I'm not defending the accuracy, my Omega and Rolex have proven to be very durable, they don't lose very much time either.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Well, you know what people think when they see a big expensive watch.......(I won't say what will get me 86'ed).

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Here's the difference:

Walk into some of the meeting's I frequently have to with a Casio G Shock on your wrist and you lose. Literally and Figuratively. Rolex, Patek, IWC, Omega, Breguet, Cartier,etc. They may not be the best at timekeeping, unnecessary they aren't; they're essential. I'm not defending the accuracy, my Omega and Rolex have proven to be very durable, they don't lose very much time either.

Canal Street, NYC...

Besides I don't think the Vanity boyz with Ray bans on this message board or in this industry do any "deals" or "meetings"....

I can't remember the last time I used timing for an approach.. that includes the sim. Besides a multi million $$ jet better have a good chronometer in it...

I had a low end "pilot" watch with four sub dials and an E6B. Never used them. The dials were too difficult to use and too small to see...

I use my watch to show up to work on time... observe starter limits (maybe) and stop the microwave whose LCD read out has failed in the crewroom.... and I fly jets... Heck some guys show up to fly with no watch. then there is ones cell phone

I do like a watch with multiple time zones.... And I have found plenty of quartz watches both analog and digital read out that do...

A Squared... another pragmatic post....