Thursday, January 26, 2012

Hamilton Khaki Flight Timer




Hamilton is an American Brand since 1892. I used to have few Hamilton Solid Gold Watches made in the 40'. Those watches were purely mechanical watches.
This Khaki Flight timers is a high function pilot watch embedded with Swiss ETA Quartz movement. New from Hamilton, result of collaboration with the Air Zermatt helicopter rescue team in Switzerland. You can see the Air Zermatt logo engraved on the caseback.
The dial is broken up into a few negative LCD screen sections and the case has a crown along with three pushers. You can still read the time easily enough, and I like the large applied metal minute/hour markers. You'll of course see that the dial is an available in a silver or anthracite tone. Skeletonized hands make it possible to see the screens below them without too much interference.
Functions include Two digital timezones, UTC time, Alarm, Chronograph, Countdown, Flight time recorder, ISA temperature display. Perpetual Calendar. Perpetual Calendar is what the Tissot Touch does not have, Tissot has the unique winning touch feature, but there is no 24 hours, no date. A deduction of a watch feature in terms of versatility.
One of the price features is log data for recording details of up to 20 flights and a total of 99 landings. It has a rotating timing bezel on the case.
The steel case is 40mm wide, water resistant to 100 meters and has a sapphire crystal.. This is a function-oriented watch and I like that Hamilton is still keen on making a lot of these pieces.
Die hard mechanical watch lovers still prefer not to use Electronics Quartz watch in professional applications. However, some of the features and functions are only achievable by means of Electronics Quartz watch module. Unless in utmost low temperature.
Hamilton will offer the Khaki Flight Timer with at least two dial options and on a rubber or leather strap. I like the Orange Strap. There is also a metal bracelet option. Prices for the leather/rubber strap models is $1,445 for just a bit more you can get the metal bracelet model for $1,495.
So if you are a Pilot, other than the Rolex GMT Master II, $ 7,800. Breitling professional Co-pilot 143A $2,475. This Hamilton is your choice too!



HK Snob

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where can you you see one in Hong Kong?

HK Snob said...

Hi
Try these Hamilton Ads;

1. Tic Tac Time Co Ltd
No. L115, Festival Walk. Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
(852) 2265 8820

2. Oriental Watch Co. Ltd.
Shop G06, G/F, Pioneer Centre, 750 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
(852) 2396 8003

3. PDW
G3A, G/F, Site 7 Whompoa Garden, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
(852) 3165 7215

4. Man Wah Watch
G/F, 785 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
23955100

HK Snob