Searching for a moderately sized pilot's watch with a nice old-fashioned feel and a military-style 24-hour time display? Well, then you should perhaps have a look at the new Glycine Airman 1953 Vintage Automatic Limited Edition (ref. 3904.14.TB9) timekeeper. The Swiss-based watch manufacturer offers the device in a nice, vintage-styled body, which is equipped with a rotating bezel that can serve as a secondary time-zone indicator, too. Although the self-winding movement that powers it doesn't look as sexy as those NOS Unitas calibers that you can find in some other recently introduced timekeepers (like, for example, this elegant Archimede Deck Watch R (Ref. UA7952)), it still offers you a combination of quality and reliability that you can expect from a watch, which is sold at more than €2000.

The new Glycine Combat 6 (Ref. 3890.19AT-LB9) automatic military wristwatch comes in a mid-sized 43 mm case and, with its traditional layout, offers superb readability in any lighting scenario. Combine this with an almost unrivaled reliability and robustness of the famous ETA 2824-2 Swiss-made movement (they prefer to list it as Caliber GL 224 in some of their ads) and an affordable price, and you get yourself an absolutely gorgeous "entry-level" pilot's (sort of) timekeeper for a person looking for his or her first "real" Swiss watch.