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[Recommendations Request] Graduation Gift for young lady pilot (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Late_Suit7373@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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My Daughter is graduating from college this year. She is on a path to becoming a pilot. I want to get her a pilots watch, and have been looking at IWC in particular.. are those too big for young lady? What are some of your favorite pilots watches I should consider? I have a budget of about $5k

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[–] Internal-Mortgage635@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Hmmm. I may be totally off base here. Pilot watches are cool and stuff but they honestly seem like oversized field watches. Idk. From someone that's dated a girl that likes watches as well, often times aesthetic and form beats purpose and functionally. A slide rule watch would be cool or a chronograph with a tachymeter. That's all dope and all for the job. But I think something like a Hamilton Pioneer Pilot would be just as fitting. 36mm. 9.95mm thick. Easily readable and I have to imagine super comfortable to wear. Functional while also leaving room to dress up or down. Idk. That to me seems like a gift I'd give.

But ultimately when it comes to watches. You honestly just gotta ask them what they want or even if they're going to wear one.