Zulu time where I mostly fly is 8 hours off local time. If the watch is a regular 12 hour watch you have to do a mental calculation for time and as a pilot you learn that the less mental calculations the better, when a lot of things are happening in the cockpit.

It is true that the 24 hour display is cramped. But I got used to it after 15 years with this watch.

I cannot find the exact version that I have online, but this one is the closest:

https://www.jomashop.com/media/catalog/product/g/l/glycine-a...

I have mine on a nato strap.