Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Boutique Edition

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IWC Schaffhausen extends the Top Gun Pilot’s Watch squadron three new Boutique models, including this chronograph.


IWC Schaffhausen releases three new Top Gun models available in limited editions at IWC boutiques around the world: a Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar, a Big Pilot’s Watch and a Pilot’s Watch Chronograph, each with its own colour: red, green and blue.

The Top Gun collection takes its name from a special training course offered by the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, the “Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor”, better known by the legendary accolade “Top Gun”. Anyone who successfully completes this course is part of an elite comprising the best-trained, fastest-reacting and most courageous pilots in the world.

IWC Schaffhausen’s designers took their inspiration for the three special editions from the cockpit instrument displays found in jets, which glow in various colours at night:  thus the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW388003) is dressed in blue.
 

Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Boutique Edition

 

PRECISION COCKPIT INSTRUMENTATION

The ideal choice for complex airborne manoeuvres is the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW388003) with blue hands and indices, protection against magnetic fields and a front glass secured against drops in pressure. And with the IWC-manufactured 89365-calibre movement, featuring a 68-hour power reserve, it is equally impressive on the inside.

Equipped with ceramic (zirconium oxide) cases – the back and crown are made of titanium – the timepieces are extremely rugged, skin-friendly and relatively light. The dial is in the classical cockpit design, all the way down to the date display, which resembles an altimeter. The central chronograph hand shows recorded times in seconds, while the hand in the subdial at “12 o’clock” shows the number of elapsed minutes. Thanks to an integrated flyback function, pressing the reset push-button causes the stopwatch hand to jump back to zero and immediately start another timing sequence. The small seconds hand rotating at “6 o’clock” indicates that the watch is running normally. The watch is issued in a limited edition of 500.
 

Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Boutique Edition

 

 

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