Breitling watches

2. At random times enroute, I would refer to my watch, consider relevant
operational factors, and arrive at command conclusions such as "....dinner
should be ready soon..."

What? Were you roasting a chicken under the cowling?

Jose
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"Jose" wrote in message news:gWwze.1848

What? Were you roasting a chicken under the cowling?

No, some airplanes have galleys. But the cowling thing is not a bad
idea..... except for inflight access.

Ha, ha. That's what I thought.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message
John,

Did you ever actually use your watch for some aeronautical purpose while
flying?

Of course, Jon.....

1. At brake release, takeoff, or when filling out paperwork, logs, etc, I
would routinely refer to my watch to determine the time. Occasionally I
would have to mentally add or subtract some factor to determine Z time.
This would often require a subsequent nap.

2. At random times enroute, I would refer to my watch, consider relevant
operational factors, and arrive at command conclusions such as "....dinner
should be ready soon..." or "....time for another coffee...".

3. On a few occasions I tried that thing with a watch where you point one
hand at the sun and you can determine North, or where the weather front
is, or some such thing, but the digital display rendered the procedure
problematic.

Fortunately, never in my career did I crash in a remote wilderness and
have to hike out 132 miles. And I always kept a real sliderule in my bag,
so I never needed to have one built into my watch. Just lucky I guess.
:-)

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:15:51 GMT, Maule Driver
wrote:

After wearing various aviation-styled watches over the years - mostly
moderately priced ones - I stopped wearing a watch all together.


You're not alone. When I quit wearing a watch I was never in doubt
about what time it was, or is, or used to be. Just look around. I
even get peeved when I see a wall clock that is not changed to
daylight or standard time. The jillion clocks at home, thanks to
Christmas past, in the car, on the cell phone, or wherever. It's
real easy to tell what time it is!

Flying. Well, I've got the clock(s) at the airport. FSS will tell
you the time to go, the stop watches will tell you how much fuel you
probably use(d). The GPS has phenominal time keeping. Within
nanoseconds. And, of course, the manual wind-up clock that our
friendly folks around (FAA) tell us must have has worked perfectectly
sincel last week. Just push one button on the GPS, NDB receiver,
pilot's yoke, passenger watch, or ... if you really want to know what
time it is, call 544-TIME.

Oh well, I've just driven a tractor in 120 F heat in Alabama. By the
angle of the Sun, and the number of dogs under the porch, I guess its
time to go back out one more time.

Hurricanes are coming. Don't ask me what time.

Mike Weller

"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message

Ha, ha. That's what I thought.


Good to hear from you. How're the family and the Skylane - in that order?

I am probably what could be described as a Watch Collector; this started
shortly after I started learning to fly in 1999. I own 5 or 6 mechanical
(automatic/hand wind) watches and a couple modern (aka battery-powered)
ones.

I have the Breitling catalogs for several sequential years, but I
stopped getting them after a while, despite my lust for a Montbrilliant
(sp?) variation on the Navitimer model. I do love the looks of those
models...

Why? Because I know of two gentlemen who have had to have their
Breitlings serviced (at their cost) after only a few years of ownership
- and one of those is an electronic watch while the other is a
mechanical one that was immersed in water (not deep) and stopped working
despite a "reasonable" statement about working underwater.

Given the cost of Breitlings - around $10K for the rose gold variant of
the aviation-specific special release done a couple years ago, I have
decided to save those dinars/dollars/simoleans for something that I have
more faith in.

BTW if anyone's interested, the most reliable mechanical watch I have
owned is a Ventura Ego Pi... Based on a fairly standard movement
(Swatch/E


On 6 Jul 2005 14:49:43 -0700, wrote:

I would like to extend an offer to you or any other pilots that might
be interested in the Breitling watch line. This is a great watch for
professionals. Some features include slide rule, emergency tracking,
chronograph and many more. I can mail you a catalog or your visit
www.breitling.com
We are the local representative of the watch line.

Romance Diamond Co. Jeweler
248 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-443-9289
www.romancediamond.com

Thank you,
Brittany Adair

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oups.com...

www.breitling.com
We are the local representative of the watch line.

Romance Diamond Co. Jeweler

Thank you,
Brittany Adair

I note that Ms Adair has not rushed to the defense of her
product............ :-)

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

wrote in message
oups.com...

www.breitling.com
We are the local representative of the watch line.

Romance Diamond Co. Jeweler

Thank you,
Brittany Adair

I note that Ms Adair has not rushed to the defense of her
product............ :-)

Spammers usually don't stick around.

..........or, of course, there are these :-

http://www.famousbrandwatch.com/proList.asp?classID=56

;-)

S.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:14 +0100, "S." wrote
in ::

.........or, of course, there are these :-

http://www.famousbrandwatch.com/proList.asp?classID=56

;-)


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