Featured with crisp blue hands, silky smooth white dial, and an in-house moved, can you guess out the model? 150 years is a whopper as far as birthdays go. The point is that all the shimmer and shine of fake IWC’s celebratory jubilee collection sits this lusciously lacquered new dial variant of the permanently popular IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph. So, how does it look now?
Apparently, you’ve possibly been beaten over the head with the everlasting coverage of IWC’s cool Tribute to Pallweber, with its jumping hours and minutes, and seen the additions to the rising Portofino collection. Hiding in the corner of IWC’s presentation, apart from a pair of Big Pilot models, rested alone chronograph – the amazing fake IWC Pilot’s Chronograph Edition “150 Years”. However, this new version of IWC’s classic 3777 isn’t especially groundbreaking, though it is one of the best interpretations we’ve seen at a time, which is actually limited to only 1000 pieces worldwide.
Though this may look like a simple white dial at the first glance, a closer examination reveals something much more outstanding and appealing. All of the 27 watches in IWC’s new “capsule collection” unveiled for the brand’s 150th anniversary are full of either white or blue lacquer dials with printed indices, and either blued or rhodium-plated hands. Before being finished to achieve a rich finish similar to that of the enamel dials from IWC’s rich archives, a total of 12 layers of lacquer are applied to all the dials. In the case of the 3777 Pilot Chronograph, its recessed subdials appear a fair bit more three-dimensional than they do on the standard black dial model.
From the above information, we note that this example comes fitted with crisp blued-steel hands, providing a significant hit of color against the glossy dial. Conceptually, we wouldn’t have necessarily thought that these typical finishes would translate to such an iconic modern tool watch, but having seen it in the metal, the old-meets-new mash-up somehow comes together surprisingly.
Nevertheless, normally speaking, a new dial configuration isn’t something we’d get too excited about, there’s a hint of logic to us singling out the Pilot’s Chronograph 150 Years. ‘Tool watch’ chronographs in a white dial seem a little difficult to come by these days and other than the replica Rolex Daytona, AP Royal Oak, and Omega Speedmaster.