I have two Citizen brand pilot watches.
I got one to commemorate passing my first checkride.
My wife gave me the second on our wedding day.

I sometimes wear one while flying, but they've never been useful. They both have an "E6B" dial, which is occasionally useful when flight planning (on the ground). They also do Timezones and ZULU time very well, which is nice when I arrive at a destination. But again, not much good in the air.

Honestly, the most useful watch for me in the air is a cheap sports watch with the ability to do multiple count-down timers. I set up the timers on the ground for each leg, then in the air, it can easily tell me how far ahead/behind my plan I am at each checkpoint.

There is a new generation of Flight Watches that is slowly becoming popular, topped by the Garmin D2 Titanium. These are more smart-watches than the traditional "swiss-style" watches. With a built in GPS, database of waypoints, moving map, and bluetooth that can sync with my iPad and on board systems, its basically a mini-glass display on your wrist. Variations run from about \$400 to \$900, so they aren't cheap. I have the Garmin D2 Bravo watch, and there is a D2 Charlie with even more features. A "D2 Delta" variant is likely in the works. They are pretty incredible in their capabilities.

I have two Citizen brand pilot watches and a Garmin SmartWatch.
I got my first Citizen one to commemorate passing my first checkride.
My wife gave me the second one on our wedding day.

I sometimes wear one while flying, but they've never been useful. They both have an "E6B" dial, which is occasionally useful when flight planning (on the ground). They also do Timezones and ZULU time very well, which is nice when I arrive at a destination. But again, not much good in the air.

There is a new generation of Flight Watches that is slowly becoming popular, topped by the Garmin D2 Titanium. These are more smart-watches than the traditional "swiss-style" watches. With a built in GPS, database of waypoints, moving map, and bluetooth that can sync with my iPad and on board systems, its basically a mini-glass display on your wrist. Variations run from about \$400 to \$900, so they aren't cheap. I have the Garmin D2 Bravo watch, and there is a D2 Charlie with even more features. A "D2 Delta" variant is likely in the works. They are pretty incredible in their capabilities.

I plan my route on my iPad, sync it over to my watch, and turn on the watch GPS slightly before takeoff. When flying a steam-cockpit, having GPS navigation, ground speed, altitude and a few other features on my wrist is extremely convenient.

I have two Citizen brand pilot watches.
I got one to commemorate passing my first checkride.
My wife gave me the second on our wedding day.

I sometimes wear one while flying, but they've never been useful. They both have an "E6B" dial, which is occasionally useful when flight planning (on the ground). They also do Timezones and ZULU time very well, which is nice when I arrive at a destination. But again, not much good in the air.

Honestly, the most useful watch for me in the air is a cheap sports watch with the ability to do multiple count-down timers. I set up the timers on the ground for each leg, then in the air, it can easily tell me how far ahead/behind my plan I am at each checkpoint.

There is a new generation of Flight Watches that is slowly becoming popular, topped by the Garmin D2 Titanium. These are more smart-watches than the traditional "swiss-style" watches. With a built in GPS, database of waypoints, moving map, and bluetooth that can sync with my iPad and on board systems, its basically a mini-glass display on your wrist. Variations run from about \$400 to \$900, so they aren't cheap (and I don't have one yet), but they are pretty incredible in their capabilities.

I have two Citizen brand pilot watches.
I got one to commemorate passing my first checkride.
My wife gave me the second on our wedding day.

I sometimes wear one while flying, but they've never been useful. They both have an "E6B" dial, which is occasionally useful when flight planning (on the ground). They also do Timezones and ZULU time very well, which is nice when I arrive at a destination. But again, not much good in the air.

Honestly, the most useful watch for me in the air is a cheap sports watch with the ability to do multiple count-down timers. I set up the timers on the ground for each leg, then in the air, it can easily tell me how far ahead/behind my plan I am at each checkpoint.

There is a new generation of Flight Watches that is slowly becoming popular, topped by the Garmin D2 Titanium. These are more smart-watches than the traditional "swiss-style" watches. With a built in GPS, database of waypoints, moving map, and bluetooth that can sync with my iPad and on board systems, its basically a mini-glass display on your wrist. Variations run from about \$400 to \$900, so they aren't cheap. I have the Garmin D2 Bravo watch, and there is a D2 Charlie with even more features. A "D2 Delta" variant is likely in the works. They are pretty incredible in their capabilities.