If pilots make so little money, why do "pilots" watches cost so damn much? I can appreciate why a highly functional and reliable watch that was made somewhere other than China is $300 to $500, more money than that and it is just bling.
I can't spend even $300, but want something better than a $30 dollar Timex. I have been looking for something that has hands, as opposed to digital Basic, simple, with an extra hand for GMT time and maybe a 24 hour bezel. As far as I can tell, no such watch exists for under $300, maybe $200 on Flea Bay.

I have been tempted by a fake Citizen on Ebay, but I hate fakes and it will probably of less quality than a Walmart Timex. For some reason I screw up every time I try to convert Zulu to PST or PST to Zulu. I have a screen on my Droid set as a split GMT/PST clock, but I would rather not have to pull my phone out and unlock the screen everytime I need to check the time.


Suggestions?

D.

David B

What you would like with four hands is available with two dials.
I know because I have one. I do not remember paying what Amazon is asking for them but I must have.

Torgoen T5 And variants.

Well I tried to copy and paste a link, but what ya expect from an old fahrt.

Google will get ya there.

Might even sell mine.

Chris C

PS: What the hell, you get two watches for $110 @ -just gota buy em both at the same time.

Bush Pilots only wear Timex and no, theres nothing better than Timex

This one has been to hell and back for the past 8 years... literally

Backcountry Tundra wrote:Bush Pilots only wear Timex and no, theres nothing better than Timex

I hung out for an afternoon in Colville WA with a guy that had the contract to keep the columbia river's floating debris cleaned out. Apparantly he finds 90% of anyone that goes missing because they wind up in a log jam. He was a big fan of timex because he found one still keeping time strapped to an arm that had been severed by a propeller and was in the river for several months.

Nosedragger wrote:....He was a big fan of timex because he found one still keeping time strapped to an arm that had been severed by a propeller and was in the river for several months.

Takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'. You'll never see that one on a TV ad.... where's John Cameron Swazey when you need him?

My 10 year old $30 Timex is digital but is still running great. I think I even gave it a new battery about 5 years ago.

porterjet wrote: I think I even gave it a new battery about 5 years ago.

You're high maintenance

Yep, good 'ol Timex. I bought a Seiko Aviator watch years ago and it was the biggest piece of $hit watch I have ever owned. Nothing but issues with it constantly breaking, I finally gave up trying to get it fixed and now just buy a dual time Timex for under $50. I no longer worry about scratching it, or if it is going to keep working while I am on a flight.

I have a cheap dual time digital that I keep on eastern time and the second on zulu. I'm an airline jockey so once I leave the house it's all zulu for me till I get home. Confuses the wife when I forget and give her a Z time for when I'm getting home.

AOPA Zulu Time Watch. $70.00. Sporty's.

Thanks guys. Timex digital it is.
I really like the Torogen with 4 hands. It is simples, looks well made blah blah blah.. But all I need right now is to know what time it is, and if the Timex can do that, then thats what I am getting.

Just take the (pacific) time and add 8 hours in winter & 7 in summer. No big deal, unless you just want a fancier watch. I keep the clock on my GPS set on zulu, but the only zulu I deal with is checking an ATIS. We speak o'clock and miles-per-hour around here.

hotrod150 wrote:Just take the (pacific) time and add 8 hours in winter & 7 in summer. No big deal, unless you just want a fancier watch. I keep the clock on my GPS set on zulu, but the only zulu I deal with is checking an ATIS. We speak o'clock and miles-per-hour around here.

My CFII was an Airforce CFII and flys Forest Service Forward Air Control. He only talks in Zulu time.
For now I have just set my watch to Zulu. I don't wear one unless I am flying, gets in the way of motorcycle gloves and jackets, plus all my bikes and my Jeep have a clock on them.

DavidB. wrote:
For some reason I screw up every time I try to convert Zulu to PST or PST to Zulu. I have a screen on my Droid set as a split GMT/PST clock, but I would rather not have to pull my phone out and unlock the screen everytime I need to check the time.


Suggestions?

D.

I heard somebody say once that if man was supposed to fly, God would have given us 12 fingers and 12 toes

Tim

qmdv wrote: I heard somebody say once that if man was supposed to fly, God would have given us 12 fingers and 12 toes

I knew I was a natural-born pilot, and that just clinched it!!

Takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'. You'll never see that one on a TV ad.... where's John Cameron Swazey when you need him?

Those Timex ads were on live TV in those days and they had a Timex strapped to a Johnson outboard prop and after running it up in the water tub ol' John flipped up the motor and the watch had come off somewhere in the tub. Swazey ad libbed that if it were still there he was sure it would still be ticking.

I have been wearing a Timex Ironman for a long time and momentary Zulu is a button push away and to go to Zulu all the time just hold the button down until Time 2 locks in. Keeps almost perfect time and hard to beat for ~$30.00. At that price I don't get all that distressed when I drop 'em in the lake or ocean on occasions (like last week).