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Examples of pilot watches include the popular Brietling Maritimer and the Rolex GMT-Master II. Some watch manufacturers even have full collections made up of pilot watches, like the Zenith Pilot line.

Its predecessor, the GMT-Master, was born out of PanAm’s request for Rolex to create a pilot watch that could keep up with swiftly shifting time zones as commercial air travel became mainstream.