IWC released a rather limited edition watch, the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition watch. The watch is limited in the number of pieces to be manufactures, which is limited to 250 pieces. The Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition watch is also limited in distribution to be sold exclusively the IWC Boutiques in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
The the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition watch is visually impressive in several ways. It is a massive watch, with a 46.2 mm case diameter and a height of 15.8 millimeters. A large black dial is contrasted by orange hands and indices. Behind the orange hands are four sub-dials and a window, which results in a complicated dial which would visually indicate that the watch has special features.
The the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition watch is visually impressive in several ways. It is a massive watch, with a 46.2 mm case diameter and a height of 15.8 millimeters. A large black dial is contrasted by orange hands and indices. Behind the orange hands are four sub-dials and a window, which results in a complicated dial which would visually indicate that the watch has special features.
Mechanically, the watch is equally impressive. The IWC manufactured 51614 caliber movement that powers this watch has a seven day power reserve, with the remaining time displayed at the the dial at the 3 o'clock.
The watch is also complication watch boasting a mechanical perpetual calendar with a four-digit year display and a moon phase display showing the moon in both hemispheres, which information is displayed in through four sub-dials and a window.
Perpetual Calendar. Many watches display the date on their dial. But since some months have only thirty, twenty-nine of twenty-eight days, you need to adjust the date at least five time per year. A perpetual calendar is a mechanism that automatically takes into account the varying number of days in each month as well as leap years so that the watch displays the correct date each month without the need of adjustment. A perpetual calendar watch will not need correction for more then a century.
Big Pilot History. In the early days of aviation, watches were use watches as navigation tools. Determining speed and time would allow them to determine distance. The first commercial wrist watches were actually designed for aviators.
The Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, commissioned IWC to build large 55mm watches to be use by it air crews. In 1939 released the IWC Large 52 S.C. Calibre Pilot's Watch. About 1200 0f these watches were built.
These large watches, with their larger dials and luminescent hands and markers were designed to provide maximum readability, and as they were worn outside thick flight suits, the 55 mm girth was not too large. Today IWC still manufactures a similar watch, the IWC Big Pilot's Watch, although now in a smaller 46 mm diameter given that the watch will be worn on the bare wrist of a owner, and not over a flight suit.
About IWC. IWC or the the "International Watch Co. Schaffhausen" was founded by an American engineer from Boston, Florentine Ariosto Jones, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in the year 1868. IWC Schaffhausen is notable for being the only major Swiss watch factory located in eastern Switzerland, as the majority of the well-known Swiss watch manufacturers are located in western Switzerland. 
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