The IWC Pilot Automatic 41 TOP GUN Mojave Desert

IWC Schaffhausen continues to broaden its “Colors of High Gun” collection with the newest Pilot’s Watch Automated 41 TOP GUN Mojave Desert. This new iteration introduces a compact, sand-toned variant to the collection, a color usually present in massive watches. Drawing inspiration from the arid terrain surrounding the U.S. Navy’s China Lake testing facility and the beige flight fits worn by naval pilots, this Mojave Desert version isn’t IWC’s first foray into the desert palette. The model has beforehand explored the colourway with a number of fashions, beginning in 2019 and together with the bigger 46mm Huge Pilot’s Watch High Gun Mojave Desert, the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph High Gun Mojave Desert, and the complicated Huge Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar High Gun Mojave Desert. Whereas these fashions established the aesthetic basis for the sand-coloured ceramic collection, the brand new 41mm computerized model follows within the footsteps of the brilliant white Lake Tahoe mannequin. It presents the identical technical base, solely with a special look.

The 41mm case of the brand new IWC Pilot’s Watch Automated 41 TOP GUN Mojave Desert is crafted from IWC’s proprietary colored ceramic with a matte end, measuring 11.4mm thick, and waterproof to 100m. The case is topped with a convex sapphire crystal with anti-reflective remedy on each side and has a titanium caseback engraved with the High Gun emblem, with a screw-in crown in metal at a traditional 3 o´clock.

The muted brown dial continues the monochromatic desert theme and options tone-on-tone Arabic numerals and markers crammed with Tremendous-LumiNova. The brown hour and minutes palms are additionally luminescent, and at 3 o’clock, a small date window is seamlessly built-in. The working seconds hand reaches out to the very legible observe. The brand new Mojave Desert 41mm version is powered by the IWC calibre 32112, a sturdy computerized motion with a pawl winding system that delivers a powerful 120-hour (5-day) energy reserve. Working at 28,800 vibrations/hour, it’s extremely sensible and integrates a hacking seconds perform.

The watch is worn on a beige rubber strap with an identical textile inlay and a titanium pin buckle. The Pilot’s Watch Automated 41 TOP GUN Mojave Desert IW328106 is obtainable now, the worth is EUR 9,100. For extra particulars, go to iwc.com.