IWC Pilot's Chronograph 'Spitfire'

There is perhaps no more versatile complication than the chronograph.  From race cars to rocket ships, boats to battlefields, you are likely to find a chronograph being employed to measure a plethora of tasks and times. From the Greek khrónos (“time”) and gráphō (“to write”), a chronograph is a watch that has the ability to record time, generally via the addition of small sub-counters that register minutes and hours.  And what better use for a chronograph than within the confines of a pilot’s watch? IWC makes some of the finest pilot’s watches in the world, with a history stretching back to the early decades of the 20th century.  This particular watch, the Pilot’s Watch 'Spitfire' Chronograph, features a 43mm stainless steel case with a domed sapphire crystal, pump pushers, a signed crown, and a flawless sunburst grey dial with applied luminous 'Arabic' indices and radial finished subsidiary registers and a matching 'sword' handset. Powered by IWC's automatic winding Calibre 79320 chronograph movement, this piece comes paired to a stainless steel bracelet with a signed push-button deployant clasp. Handsome, well sized and featuring a knockout movement, it would be tough to argue that this isn’t one of the best values in chronographs available today - full stop.