Breitling Navitimer GMT 41, Breitling Navitimer World, Seiko Sports 5 GMT, Valtis SCIFMaster GMT, Tudor Pelagos 39, Casio A168W-1

An Air Force MQ-9 pilot with AFSOC. In the submitter's words, "There is a story to most of these watches." Watches only came along a few years ago, but a Navitimer had been wanted for a long time. The Breitling Navitimer GMT 41 was the first watch, bought at the end of the last ops deployment as a Launch and Recovery pilot, after five deployments. The Navitimer World is the dream watch, "after realizing a real Navi should be a chrono. When I fly for work or pleasure, this is on my wrist." Now on a staff. The Seiko 5 Sports GMT and the Valtis SCIFMaster GMT are the beater watches "when I still need to know Zulu time." The Tudor Pelagos 39 was a self-gift for finishing a master's degree and being selected for lieutenant colonel. It was recently out in the field. The Casio A168 rounds it out. And wherever the watches go, so does the custom lighter from the Africa deployments. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

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Six watches and a lighter Breitling Navitimer World. The Navitimer dates to 1952, when Breitling built a chronograph for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association with a circular slide rule on the bezel for working fuel, speed and distance problems in the cockpit. The Navitimer World is the travel version: a 46mm steel case and Breitling's Caliber 24, a self-winding chronograph that adds a second time zone hand. Breitling Navitimer GMT 41. The same slide rule bezel in a slimmer 41mm case, 11.65mm thick, without the chronograph. It runs the Breitling 32, a self-winding movement at 28,800 vibrations per hour with a 24 hour second time zone hand and about 42 hours of reserve. Tudor Pelagos 39. Released in 2022, a 39mm grade 2 titanium dive watch rated to 200 metres, with the COSC certified manufacture calibre MT5400 and roughly 70 hours of reserve. Seiko 5 Sports GMT. Seiko put a GMT into the Seiko 5 Sports line in 2022, powered by the caliber 4R34: automatic, hand winding, 24 jewels, about 41 hours of reserve, in a 42.5mm steel case rated to 100 metres. Casio A168. The Illuminator digital, with an electroluminescent panel that lights the whole display and a battery Casio sellers rate at about seven years on a single CR2016 cell. The Valtis SCIFMaster GMT is the other beater. AFSOC and the MQ-9 An MQ-9 has to be flown by line of sight for takeoff and landing, so the Air Force sends a small Launch and Recovery Element forward to the airfield while most aircrew fly the mission from home station. The forward crew gets the aircraft airborne, then hands it over by satellite link to the mission control crew, and takes it back to land it. AFSOC has since demonstrated satellite launch and recovery that can do without the forward element.

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