The 40 Best Pilot Watches – Affordable and Luxury Aviation Watches — Wrist Enthusiast

The Wrist Enthusiast team has been doing a lot of traveling this Summer, and it got us thinking about some of our favorite Pilot Watches – a favorite segment for us. Pilot’s watches can be very utilitarian, or they can be incredibly complicated (We’ve even seen some on the wrists of Astronauts in space!). The problem is, there are just so many to choose from that it’s hard to break down every single one of them. So we put together a list of 30 of our favorites from every end of the Pilot Watch space, at every price point.

IWC Big Pilot IW501001

What would a list of the Best Pilot Watches be without the IWC Big Pilot? Arguably the most universally recognized Pilot watch on the market, IWC specializes in hyper-legible Pilot watches, and their oversized Big Pilot is pretty much their staple (some would say “flagship”) watch. The Big Pilot (ref. IW501001) is a beast – measuring in at 46.2mm in Diameter with the always recognizable oversized onion crown making it wear even larger. The Big Pilot is designed around legibility at high rates of speed in the air, so the white indices against the black dial doesn’t get any more legible, and the fact that it’s basically a dinner plate on your wrist makes the Big Pilot the absolute authority on legible Pilot Watches. You can pick up the IWC Big Pilot IW501001 for $13,200 USD.