Piltowatches
A pilot watch is a watch, as since the beginning
of the 20th Century for the needs of pilots has
been developed. The delineation of military
watches often exists only in the marketing.
Since the air at that time was one of the most
advanced engineering services, offering many watch
manufacturers to far more than the actual needs
airman watches to participate in the myth of
precision and high technology. All the pioneering
work of the aerospace industry can be found in the
history of the watch manufacturer.
The actual pilot watches were built early in the
dashboard and developed from the already
technically weitentwickelten chronometers of
seafaring. Achieve the required accuracy with a
wrist watch was more ambitious than a technical
necessity.
Today, the mechanical pilot watch and the
expression of many replicas of the time ghost of a
technically oriented, primarily male audience.
History
The French watchmaker Cartier has developed for
the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos
Dumont in 1906, with the Cartier Santos, the first
special clock for pilots, which was worn on the
wrist. The idea was further developed by other
manufacturers, so that Fliegeruhren formed, which
met the needs of the former pilots.
At this time, watches were already known. Naval
and artillery officers were the first men who
watches used for timing. Widespread and accepted,
however, were only fashionable watches with
decorative function, which were worn by women. The
advent of aviation watches contributed to wider
acceptance of wristwatches for men.
pilot watches possessed accurate mechanical watch
movements were constructed and unadorned, rugged
and shock resistant. Many models have extra long
straps, to be able to wear them on the pilots
jacket. The dial was rich in contrast - usually
white on a black background estimates - was being
frequently present in addition to the hour ring a
separate chapter ring. Often printed instead of
the number twelve was a marked triangle. Numbers,
triangle, and were usually associated with
luminescent hands, radioactively doped luminescent
color coated to allow for visibility at night. The
crown was designed particularly strong and
effective enough so that the clock could be
adjusted and raised, even with gloves. The clocks
often have a total station, which facilitates the
calculation of the velocity.
Further developments were equipped with rotary dials for the celestial
navigation - in this development, Charles Lindbergh was involved. For use in
military aviation features like anti-magnetism and the resilience to extreme
climatic and kinetic pressures were essential. It proved to be a purely
mechanical watch movements emerging quartz watches for a long time as a
superior.
After World War I took on board clocks installed in the aircraft, the tasks
of the pilot watches that are only needed as a replacement system or for the
individual tasks of individual members of the crew usually multiheaded then
imported into the more modern aircraft types.
