TOP GUN Pilots Double Chronograph from IWC. A powerful & striking watch.
IWC Schaffhausen has been building pilot's watches for professional use for more than 70years. It knows what pilot's watches must be able to achieve and endure., Classic and Spitfire, all bear the rating "flight qualified""TOP GUN" logo of the American elite pilots School of weapon, ready for take-off. The Pilot's Watch Double Chronograph Edition TOP GUN. Black. Big. With a case made of high-tech ceramic and operating elements in titanium. black ceramic case, combined with titanium, bears the symbol of the best combat pilots in the US Navy discreetly on the case flank and recessed into the screw-down titanium back of the watch. The Pilot's Watch Double Chronograph Edition TOP GUN in its 46mm case is an uncompromising men's watch in the cockpit instrument look. Its functions establish its identity as a specialist in mechanical chronometry. Its split-seconds function permits the measurement, accurate to the second, not only of stop times, but also of any desired intermediate times within a given minute. The red counterweights on the two chronograph hands form the silhouette of a fighter aircraft as they come together. The totalizers on the black dial record stop times up to 12 hours. black nylon straase blanks today can be moulded more efficiently and more accurately than previously from the mixture of zirconium oxide powder and binder. They are baked at temperatures between 1,500 and 2,000 degrees Celsius and then cooled in a complicated process to enable the material to acquire all its outstanding properties. Diamond-tipped tools are required for the intricate finishing of the blanks. The combination of ceramic and titanium for the case back and the operating elements is one of the distinctive features of all future TOP GUN models. In spite of the impressive size of the case, the use of modern materials, onblack nylon strap
Full set Circa 2007 |
