It’s been a big year for IWC’s emblematic Big Pilot’s Watch, which has proven its versatility as both a canvas for avant-garde design and a base for high complications. Thus far in 2021, we’ve seen the debut of a new 43-mm version of the base model, a constant-force tourbillon with an automotive design, and a chronograph with Mercedes-AMG DNA. The latest model pays a playful tribute to the gaming capital of Las Vegas and specifically the game of roulette.

IWC Big Pilots Watch Edition “Las Vegas” (Ref. IW501014)

The Big Pilot’s Watch Edition “Las Vegas” has all the hallmarks of the modern version of the historical “Grosse Fliegeruhr,” first developed for the German military in 1940 and famously revived and revamped in 2002 ? among them a 46-mm stainless steel case, a large, conical screw-down crown, and, covering the wide, legible dial, a sapphire crystal secured against sudden pressure drops as one might encounter in a cockpit. Like the 2002 version, the watch features a date window at 6 o’clock and an indicator for its very user-friendly seven-day power reserve in a subdial at 3 o’clock.
The white, red, and black dial elements are inspired by a roulette wheel.

Echoing the colors of a roulette wheel, the silver-plated dial of the new “Las Vegas” edition uses black, white, red, and green to identify its details. Black hands tell time on black numerals and indices on a predom...