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Thank you, a most excellent read.
I thoroughly enjoyed the great detail and comprehensive background.
Allow me to make one comment (which I cannot stop myself from making): The German "B-Uhr" is short for Beobachtungsuhr or observation watch in English, which as you write refers to its role in navigation. Hence the watch was issued to the navigator, not the pilot when the crew were sent out on their bombing or reconnaissance missions. Pilots wore smaller wrist watches much like the British Mark XI of later vintage. So the Big Pilot is pure marketing - it is a Big Navigator if it has to be described as anything big. The German Grosse Flieger is somewhat truer to the original since fliegen means to fly and both pilot and navigator flew, of course.
Cheers, Dirk
Der IWC Big Pilot's Watch (With loads of Pics)
© Decksurgeon May 2009 Der Grosse Fliegeruhr It be near impossible to cover the sheer breadth and depth of the history of the pilot's watches from the very start to present day. But here are some interesting in an abridged presentation facts and some pict...
Thanks, decksurgeon! The current line of IWC pilots watches . . .
. . . seems to have a following on TP/PPro, and your last photo brings a new dimension to 'stacking' that seems to be in vogue on the Rolex and Blancpain forums ;-). Re testing in three temperatures: the current G O Senator Chronometer is issued with a ch...
Thank you Dr no for the insight
it is very good news to know that some modern day watches still undergo some time honored traditions like 3 temperature adjustments. even more excellent to know that Senator Chronometer is one of them. Superb news to me ears
Superb post, Decksurgeon!
Nicely written ,well documented and always this link between Past And Present... Very interesting, indeed, to see the roots of the modern IWC Pilot Watches. Another interesting thing is to see, once again, how close is the design of the Lange, Laco, and I...
Very interesting...
Post. Thank you for sharing this part of history of the pilot watches As an owner of one, I appreciate it Cheers
Pilot's Watch
Thanks JM for the excellent post. Just cannot imagine the Cartier Santos Dumont as the first 'pilot's watch'....
Thank you, a most excellent read.
I thoroughly enjoyed the great detail and comprehensive background. Allow me to make one comment (which I cannot stop myself from making): The German "B-Uhr" is short for Beobachtungsuhr or observation watch in English, which as you write refers to its ro...
in this case....
Hats off to Glashutte Original as they are the ones that call their version as the Navigator cheers
