Pilot

DETAILS Model: IW387901 Year: 2019 Scope: Original Box & Papers Movement: Automatic Case Width: 41mm Strap length: Adjustable CONDITION This watch is in excellent condition. Watch comes with original box, booklets, dust cloth and dated warranty card.

IWC first began producing Pilot's watches in the 1930s, but they really became a major part of the brand's lineup with the Mark X, produced for the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. While IWC only produced 6,000 of these watches, it provided the foundations for the more famous Mark XI, which began production in 1949 and was sold until 1981. This classic design gave life to the modern Pilot's collection, where these chronographs sit. These designs revolve around highly legible dials, mounted onto solid cases housing a modular chronograph movement. Though they were only introduced in the 1990s, long after mechanical chronographs ceased to be a navigational tool, they were very much built with practicality in mind. IWC IWC, originally known as the International Watch Company, is the unlikely result of an American businessman's industrial practices applied to traditional Swiss watchmaking.

His attempt to industrialise Swiss watchmaking was heavily opposed in French Switzerland, but he found in Schaffhausen a town that welcomed his ideas. Fast forward to today, IWC stays close to its industrial-age heritage. While the new manufacture looks nothing like the factories of the 19th Century, it still approaches watchmaking with the same efficiency that was unheard of when the company was first conceived.