A-15 Pilot

The Bulova Military Collection features historic designs that honor the brand’s rich heritage of creating purpose-built timepieces for the United States Armed Forces. The Bulova A-15 Pilot Watch is based on the original design of the military-issued A-15 “Elapsed Time Watch” that Bulova produced for the United States Army back in 1944.

The 42mm stainless steel case has a lug width of 20mm, and it includes a sapphire crystal and a screwed-on case back for a water resistance rating of 30 meters. Originally designed to help with navigation, the Bulova A-15 Pilot Watch features two separate rotating scales surrounding the perimeter of its dial, with one offering a 12-hour scale and the other graduated for 60-minutes. Rotating the two scales is achieved by turning the additional crowns located on the side of the watch’s case, and this highly flexible system can be used to either display a secondary time zone or to measure the duration of an event up to 12-hours.

Driving the three centrally-mounted hands of the Bulova A-15 Pilot Watch is the Miyota 82S6 automatic movement, which offers reliable mechanical timekeeping and a power reserve of approximately 42 hours. Like the original model from 1944, the modern Bulova A-15 Pilot Watch features a hacking seconds feature, but the true brilliance of its innovative design is that all of its additional functionality is achieved through its rotating bezels, which allows the watch itself to run on a simple and easily serviceable time-only automatic movement.