IWC Big Pilot 45mm Test Pilot Automatic Steel Watch

The IWC Big Pilot 45mm Test Pilot is the Swiss luxury watch for those who fly aircraft that have never been flown before, at the edge of what the airframe can survive, making the measurements that allow the engineers on the ground to understand whether the thing they have designed performs as they intended or whether the gap between the design and the reality is large enough to kill someone — test pilots, experimental flight directors, and those of envelope-pushing aeronautical discipline who understand that the peculiar professional requirement of their work is to remain analytically rigorous about their own potential death, to report what actually happened rather than what should have happened, and to do this with sufficient precision that the engineers can use the data to make the next flight safer than the one that just ended. Its 45mm stainless steel case carries the Big Pilot's commanding presence with flight-deck, test-range authority: the large oversized dial designed for cockpit readability at every g-load and lighting condition, the soft-iron anti-magnetic inner case protecting the movement from avionics interference across every experimental flight regime, and the Swiss automatic movement executing with the flight-envelope-tested, independently certified mechanical reliability that flying machines that have never been flown before eventually teaches every serious test pilot to require of every instrument they trust their life to.

• 45mm stainless steel case, Big Pilot commanding test-range flight-deck presence
• Swiss automatic movement, flight-envelope-tested certified performance
• Soft-iron inner case, avionics experimental anti-magnetic protection
• Large oversized dial, every-g-load cockpit readability
• Calf leather strap, test-range mission-critical pin buckle