Off the Track and On the Wrist: IWC Releases ?Lewis Hamilton? Edition Big Pilot?s Watch Perpetual Calendar
To cap off a year of popular releases in 2019, IWC Schaffhausen released its latest special edition of its Big Pilot?s Watch Perpetual Calendar this past December. The new ?Lewis Hamilton? Edition, released in partnership and collaboration with Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton (pictured below), represents the highest elevation of this perpetual calendar watch to date, using a creative combination of materials and colors to offer a high-luxury consumer an uncommon watch in the market as well as a unique piece in the IWC collection.
The new model features a 46.5-mm black ceramic Big Pilot case, with a prominent screw-down rose-gold ?cone? crown on its right side. The case frames the watch?s  key feature, a sunray-pattern Bordeaux-red dial with rose-gold accents throughout. Its outer edge hosts a familiar minute ring, with slightly enlarged applied hour markers as well as the signature triangle marker at the 12 o?clock position, an element of early historical pilots’ watches. Inside this outer ring are Arabic numerals at most hour positions, while rose-gold sword style hands sweep over the face to indicate the hour and minute.
The Big Pilot?s Watch Perpetual Calendar is a watch well-known for its complications and subdials, and this model is no different. Toward the top of the dial is a lunar phase indicator where black and gold circles give the impression of orbiting one another, while toward the bottom is a subdial for the months of the year with a small arro...
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