The watch half my colleagues actually wear
By Rafael Ortiz, Mexico City ·
Walk through a crew room anywhere and you'll see one of these. The Aerospace has been the working pilot's Breitling for decades, and this Evo version in titanium keeps the formula: analog hands for a quick look, digital displays for everything else. Chronograph, alarm, world time. Set it once with the crown, and on a Mexico City to Tokyo rotation you can have home time and local time running side by side without any mental math at 4 a.m.
Titanium on a titanium bracelet, 43 mm wide and only 11.9 mm thick. It's light, it slides under a cuff, and the 100 m of water resistance covers everything a pilot actually does with water (coffee, mainly).
The B70 SuperQuartz is accurate and the alarm saves you when you're jet-lagged and your phone is dead. I love the alarm. Más que nada.
My complaint is the LCDs. At an angle, or with polarized sunglasses, they can go dim, and in bright sun they wash out. The hands do the heavy lifting, but if you're buying it for the digital functions, try reading it with your sunglasses on first.
At 5,250 to 5,550 dollars it isn't cheap for quartz. But it's a real tool for a real job, and I'd rather have this on a long-haul day than half the mechanical watches I own.