NIGHT WINGS
It is a face tinted black as an ink night that the Schaffhausen-based manufacture has chosen to add to its collection of chronographs with a design inspired by the sky exploration.
In 1936, exactly 87 years ago, IWC unveiled a new wristwatch specially designed for passionate about the sky thanks to a marker on the dial to memorize the time of takeoff. Then in 1940, it presented the Grande Big Pilot’s Watch 52 T.S.C. whose emblematic dial was reborn in 2002 to become a must-have in the watchmaking landscape. More than two decades later, after a blue and a green versions, the Schaffhausen-based manufacture is offering a variant with a black face, equipped with displays useful in everyday life: the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41.
While its appearance is totally anchored among the clouds with its specific design inspired by flight instruments, the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 is above all a versatile timepiece that adapts to the wearer’s personality thanks to its interchangeable strap in black calfskin with a pin buckle or steel five-link bracelet and folding clasp. Machined from the same metal, the 41mm diameter and approximately 14.5mm thick case houses the caliber 69385, a self-winding movement developed by IWC that delivers a 48-hour power reserve when fully wound. On the dial, which is coated in intense black, the hour circle with large Arabic numerals and hour markers frames three azure counters: the chronograph minutes and hours, respectively placed at 12 and 9 o’clock and powered by the central second hand, and the small seconds, whose hand is varnished in red, the only touch of color in this black and white ensemble. At 3 o’clock, a double window clearly displays the day and date, thus completing the essential time provided by the two large central hands.
