IWC
Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun
Ref. IW388002


EUR 6.650,-

List price EUR 11.900,-

IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun ref. IW388002 with box, papers and original purchase receipt in condition like new. This distinctive Top Gun model by IWC Schaffhausen embodies functional instrument-watch design with military roots, featuring a durable ceramic case and excellent legibility. A modern pilot’s chronograph with a strong, sporty presence and everyday versatility.

Details


Material

Ceramic

Clockwork

Automatic

Ref NR.

IW388002

Dial color

grey

Paper

Yes, from 2015

Condition

like new

Box

Yes

Diameter

46mm

Warranty

1 Year

Pilot's Watches

Pilot's Watches

The pilot's watch was of enormous importance, especially in the early days of civil and military aviation. Accuracy and easy readability were the essential requirements for fast and precise navigation in any flight situation. In 1936 IWC presented the first special watch for aviators. In 1940, the Large Pilot's Watch, also known as the Observation Watch, was launched on the market. In 1948 IWC produced a newly designed navigation watch with effective magnetic field protection for the Royal Air Force, which remained in service for over 40 years. The legendary Mark XI.

International Watch Company

IWC

The succes story of IWC began in 1868 when the American engineer Florentine Aristo Jones settled in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. His business partner Johann Heinrich Moser had invented a system that enabled them to use the water power of the Rhine for industrial purposes. Together they started the mechanized production of Watches. In the following Year they already produced over 10.000 Watches for the US market and expanded selling internationally.

The best time is now:

IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun

1 1 Year Timelounge-Warranty

Box included

Papers included

Articles prepared for you

In the right time

Rocket Science

For a brief moment, I seriously considered starting this short article with a scientific treatise on the production of carbon fibers. However, given my rather limited abilities in the natural sciences during my school days, I immediately abandoned this idea and instead turned my attention to the things that move us all on a daily basis. Watches.

The return of the 80s

Everything comes back. At some point. Even my grandmother knew that and the more mature you become, the more you realise: damn, it really is like that. When Rolex presented the GMT-Master II as a yellow gold and bicolour version on a Jubilé bracelet last year, I immediately felt something like my own personal Werthers Echte moment. Only not with gold-wrapped caramel sweets, but with the watches I knew from my childhood. And so I still remember, as if it were yesterday, the picture of TV legend Horst Tappert smiling at me from the cover of a TV magazine with a gold GMT on a Jubilee bracelet.