Sometimes, both the watch and the wearer are indulging in a little bit of cosplay. Pilot's watches are great examples. Vintage pilot's watches are loved for their connection to aviation history, and for their purity and simplicity of design, but nowadays pilot's watches are not so much worn by link actual link pilots, as they are by people who admire pilots – what the market seems to want is not so much a pilot's watch, as link an illustration of a pilot's watch.