The Timely Relationship Between Watch Brands and Airlines
Air travel is back, if with lot more bite, which inspired this revisit of the relationship between watch brands and airlines.
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The relationship between timekeeping and flying is hardly straightforward, in the way that the dive watch is inextricably linked with the activity for which it is named. At the very start though, precise timing was key, if only to prove a point: establishing evidence for the first sustained powered flight. As every child learns, this was Orville Wright?s flight of just 12 seconds in 1903, which was just about 12 seconds longer than anyone else had managed; his brother Wilbur made an attempt days before that lasted just three seconds. The press was unimpressed by the duration, at first, but people eventually came around, but we relate this only to note that timing was important, even if not functionally vital.
This being a watch magazine, many of you, dear readers, will hasten to remind us (we can imagine the gears of your minds turning) that aviation requires a fair bit of navigating and that means the longitude factor will be as important to pilots as it is sailors. It has not escaped our attention, rest assured. This is the reason we crown our selection of timepieces with the Breitling AOPA Navitimer, and a note about the slide rule that the brand introduced, which served as a sort of wrist computer for pilots.
Rolex Advert, 1969
On t...
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The relationship between timekeeping and flying is hardly straightforward, in the way that the dive watch is inextricably linked with the activity for which it is named. At the very start though, precise timing was key, if only to prove a point: establishing evidence for the first sustained powered flight. As every child learns, this was Orville Wright?s flight of just 12 seconds in 1903, which was just about 12 seconds longer than anyone else had managed; his brother Wilbur made an attempt days before that lasted just three seconds. The press was unimpressed by the duration, at first, but people eventually came around, but we relate this only to note that timing was important, even if not functionally vital.
This being a watch magazine, many of you, dear readers, will hasten to remind us (we can imagine the gears of your minds turning) that aviation requires a fair bit of navigating and that means the longitude factor will be as important to pilots as it is sailors. It has not escaped our attention, rest assured. This is the reason we crown our selection of timepieces with the Breitling AOPA Navitimer, and a note about the slide rule that the brand introduced, which served as a sort of wrist computer for pilots.
Rolex Advert, 1969
On t...
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