We’ve taken off on an adventure with accidentallywesanderson! Join us on a trip back to the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’, to Floyd Bennet Field, New York, inspired by this important watch. ✈️ 🧭 ⌚️ ✈️ The two runways opened in 1931, complete with a flashy upmarket terminal. Dozens of around-the-world flights started or ended on its runways, including those piloted by Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes. ✈️ The venture that encouraged the construction of Floyd Bennett Field was the famous and much coveted Ortieg prize—$25,000 offered to the first aviator who completed a non-stop flight between New York and Paris. Early attempts had claimed lives. It was a prize dreamt of by hundreds; but finally completed by Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh, who made his made his famous non-stop solo flight over the North Atlantic in 1927. ✈️ Among his lucky gear was his model aviator “hack” watch, which could be set precisely to the second, rather than the minute. Those seconds were essential. ✈️ Lind...