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One is for people in combat going "oh shit oh shit oh shit what time is it?" and the other is for airline pilots with nothing to do for 10 hours at a time.
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Both are pilots watches...
One is a modern take on it giving scales and graphs and calculations.
The other is a historic pilots watch - the Nav B Uhr watch (or a variant) which comes from the WW2 pilots (technically the navigators) that needed simply but BIG CLEAR MARKINGS. read this for more
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So no need for pet peev... Just sub categories as you said
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Pilot seems to mean "black face but not tactical" to a lot of watchmakers.
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Pet peeve time.
How can these two watches both be classed as pilot/aviation watches while being defined by completely different feature sets?
Or is there a sub-category that I'm oblivious to?