What Airline Pilots Used to Use: Glycine Airman GMT (Patreon)
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A highly regarded Swiss watch, even by watch snobs, the Glycine Airman GMT gets a Nutnfancy review! This orange one (link below) IS striking and has looks we have not seen here before. The Airman GMT has typical Glycine Swiss "qualit-D," an H30 auto movement, 2nd Cool time zone tracking, sapphire crystal, cool colorations & hands varieties, and a decent price for what you get.
I'll show another favorite Glycine watch as a competitive, and less expensive, option...it remains an all time fave. Also an Islander Aviator and Hamilton Khaki Field will also make a showing, both also highly rec'd for your hopefully always growing watch collection.
Automatic Glycine Combat 6 Vintage blue, one the best field watches ever https://tinyurl.com/4uc2jbsa
Automatic Glycine Combat 6 Black https://tinyurl.com/45jvxvua
Automatic Glycine Combat 6 White https://tinyurl.com/8zst764z
Glycine Combat Sub watches, xlnt auto Swiss dive watches. https://tinyurl.com/3hv8y3mv
Glycine Airman Contemporary GL0462 orange https://tinyurl.com/yc36j2f4
Glycine Airman Contemporary GL0069 full lume! https://tinyurl.com/yne4c2a5
Glycine Airman Contemporary selection at time of publishing https://tinyurl.com/cy7fevey
Hamilton Khaki Field selection, xlnt Swiss auto field watches https://tinyurl.com/2p9dsfa3
Camo Hamilton Khaki Field H001.70.535.031.01 https://tinyurl.com/4x8bj5ps https://tinyurl.com/2p8kduyh
From elite TNP donor "small axe" on real world use of this watch:
"I have a Glycine Airman 42 GL0069 and I like it a lot for traveling. I bought it for a mission trip to Zambia a couple of years ago. I got mine for $379 no tax free shipping on a black Friday sale. I used the GMT hand for home time, the 12 hour handset for Zambia time, and the bezel for local time of my next layover when flying. I combined 2 colors of nail polish to color fill the bezel markings with a near perfect match with the dial color. Reading the dial that shares the GMT and 12 hour handset took a bit of getting used to, but with a little practice I could read home time and Zambia local at a glance. I could say the time at home faster than my companions with smart watches that took a couple of taps to display it. That may have been a result of their choice of display options, I don't know. Personally I liked the syringe hands. The slim tips are set up to run right out to the track they are meant to read. For me it made it easier to get an exact read than some other handsets that cover the track you're trying to read. The full lume dial is nice on long flights when the cabin of the aircraft is dark. With a keychain black light I could power up the lume without disturbing my seatmates. I love mine and will never part with it for sentimental reasons. It isn't what you'd call a daily driver, but it warms my heart to pop it on the wrist for a few days. It's my go to wherever I leave my home time zone. I live in Arizona, we don't do daylight savings time so I have trouble keeping up with the time difference even within the US. it's nice to set it and forget it for a whole trip. Could the job be done more efficiently by an electronic option? Probably. But I get great pleasure from the second cool of an automatic watch and it never has to get charged. For me 5 stars at the $379 I paid, probably 4 stars if it was over $600."