When Watches & Wonders got underway, the big news from IWC that everyone seemed pretty focused on was the introduction of a pair of colorful ceramic chronographs in the expanding Top Gun family. I wrote about those watches at the start of the show, which now seems like a million years ago, and while people are still excited about these ceramic chronos (particularly the white one, which is popping up all over my Instagram feed) there?s another IWC chronograph that I think is something of a sleeper in their Watches & Wonders announcements. For everyone complaining about the size of the ceramic watches (I hear you, but also, they?re not as ridiculous on the wrist as you?d think, and wear better than they have any right to) let me turn your attention to IWC?s Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Ceratanium. It?s a watch in a more wearable case, in what is arguably a more interesting material, and shows just how differently watches in the same Top Gun family can present on the wrist. 
My IWC meeting was among my last at Watches & Wonders, and I have to be honest that heading in I had muted expectations. I wanted to see the ceramic pieces and the new colors up close, but I knew they?d be a bit bigger than I?d normally like, and was convinced that IWC wouldn?t have anything this year that would really ?wow? me. My eyes were immediately drawn to the smaller, darker chronograph laid out in the presentation room, and I remembered this watch was also inclu...