To kick off its SIHH, IWC has announced a number of new Pilots’ watches, including a bronze-cased Spitfire and a new take on the Timezoner
By Chris Hall

Not content to let one or two watches slip out before SIHH has opened its large, beige doors, IWC has released details of four new pilot’s watches. Aviation will be the theme for its new launches this January – while it normally does focus on one of its families, last year it deviated from the pattern to celebrate its 150th anniversary. 
We have new pieces here representing every different style of IWC pilot’s watch (it’s worth remembering that for all that the watches themselves are pretty approachable, the Pilot’s family at IWC is one of the most cluttered and confusing, with the MK XVIII series, Pilot’s, Big Pilot, Spitfire, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Le Petit Prince, Top Gun and Top Gun Miramar all representing different sub-families). Still, if these are the warm-up acts, it’s fair to say we’re excited for the main event. First off, let’s look at the Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Spitfire Edition “The Longest Flight”. The Timezoner (a word that still looks and sounds alien to us, but does denote a pretty interesting take on the world time complication) first launched in 2016. Now it gets a re-skin in “heritage” colours, as a tie-in with IWC’s sponsorship of a round-the-world flight taking place this summer, which we repo...