wmbjk wrote:

Those $3 plastic watches are useless for trimming out a heavy wing
condition or for banging on a recalcitrant weather radar screen.
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Back before they had plastic watches, back when I usta drive other
people's airplanes, I bought myself a Breitling 'Navitimer' serial
#806; the one with all the dials and an E6-B on the bezel soz everyone
would know I wuz a Daring Aviator.

It proved to be an accurate, reliable time-piece (and still is) but
after seeing similar watches being worn by all the yuppies and hangar
pilots I stopped wearing it to aviation functions. Instead, I wear a
Timex, the one where Mickey helps you figger out the time :-)

-R.S.Hoover