By almost any standard, the luxury watch world enjoyed a successful year in 2021 despite the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its worldwide economic consequences ? with high-profile retailers reopening and expanding, new auction records set, some large-scale industry events (like our own WatchTime New York) returning, and of course, a host of notable timepieces launched. As we wrap up 2021 and look ahead enthusiastically to 2022, we take our annual look back at some of the year’s notable timepieces in various popular categories. Today we showcase pilot’s watches.

The Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Red Radar Ceramic is the latest creative take on the original Radar watch, one of the most quirky and inventively designed members of the brand’s Flight Instrument collection, with a dial inspired by a radar screen. Rotating under a translucent red sapphire crystal are two ultra-light, concentric disks that replace conventional hour and minute hands. In a major update from the previous Red Radar models, these disks now host two miniature screen-printed planes ? a passenger plane on the larger outer hour disk and a fighter plane on the smaller, central minutes disk. The hours scale is printed on the underside of the sapphire crystal, and a red central analog hand laps the concentric disks to record the seconds and complete the realistic look of a radar screen. The 42-mm case, constructed in Bell & Ross?s square dashboard clock configuration, is made...