My kind of topic! I'm a Breitling fan! I've a Colt, Navitimer and Emergency.
I've known quite a few pilots; private, GA, military (I learned to fly with the RAF whilst at University) and commercial. The only ones I saw with regularity were military pilots when I was in the RAF.
My ex-girlfriend was a GA pilot and I was considering buying her a Breitling for a milestone birthday. She thought it was pointless and stupid idea (along with those ugly aluminium Rimowa cases
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Most of the US based pilots I've chatted to about Breitlings thought the actual pilot functions were pretty useless as they had enough computer power in the cockpit to not have to bother about them.
Personally I think they're timeless and classy watches that never got out of fashion*
*With the exception of some of the Breitling for Bentley range etc.