| The
International Watch Company (IWC) is a Swiss company, founded by an
American. Florentine Jones made the decision in the 1860s to establish
a manufactory in Switzerland. In so doing, he was able to take
advantage of the Swiss watchmaking expertise and lower wages of the
workers. Jones was not well-funded, however, and he eventually had to
give up control of the company. Over the years, the company changed
ownership many times and experienced a veritable roller-coaster of
success and failures. Today, however, the IWC is a strong participant
on the world stage of luxury timepieces. |
| Since 2002, the Big Pilot's Watch has been IWC's flagship. Its
IWC-manufactured 51110 movement contains all the features that have
proved their worth in the long history of IWC mechanical watches.
Within no time at all, the automatic movement - currently the largest
of its kind in the world - generates a power reserve of 8.5 days, but
only runs for seven before an ingenious little mechanism automatically
stops it. The Pilot's Watch Chrono-Automatic is an immediate eye-catcher. The
dial has been modified to match the classical design of the Big Pilot's
Watch, as can be seen, among
other things, from the eye-catching chapter ring and the propeller-like
hands. The new Spitfire Pilot Double Chronograph from IWC sees the addition of
a fascinating function to this prestigious watch line: the split-seconds hand, also
known by its French name, Rattrapante. The functional design of the dial takes up IWC Pilot Watch tradition
and takes the basic idea a logical step further: the perfect
amalgamation of form and function. |
- Mechanical movement
- Self-winding
- Small seconds hand with stop function
- Date display
- Second minute hand for minute memory function
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Automatic Pellaton winding system on the Pilot collections
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Seven days' continuous running
- The Pilot watch has a Power reserve display
- Beryllium alloy balance with high-precision adjustment cam on the balance bars
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Brequet spring on the Pilot
- Convex sapphire glass, antireflective on both sides and secured against displacement by drop in air pressure
- The Pilot is water resistant to 60m
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