{"id":25873,"date":"2020-08-27T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/the-iwc-big-pilots-watch-perpetual-calendar-top-gun\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:19:56","slug":"iwc-top-gun-big-pilots-watch-perpetual-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/iwc-top-gun-big-pilots-watch-perpetual-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"The IWC Big Pilot&#8217;s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun watch hands-on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It all began in <strong>1985<\/strong> with the launch of a complicated timepiece, an outstanding mechanical movement and a man\u2019s engineering as exceptional as the watch itself: that man is master watchmaker <strong>Kurt Klaus<\/strong>. The outcome was the\u00a0<strong>IWC Da Vinci ref. 3750<\/strong> and represented the state-of-the-art in perpetual calendar watchmaking. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Perpetual-Calendar-Ref-3750-1.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Ref 3750\" class=\"wp-image-58672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Perpetual-Calendar-Ref-3750-1.jpg 972w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Perpetual-Calendar-Ref-3750-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Perpetual-Calendar-Ref-3750-1-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Perpetual-Calendar-Ref-3750-1-120x87.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Reference <strong>IWC<\/strong> <strong>3750<\/strong> has been a milestone in watchmaking as has been the <strong>IWC Novecento<\/strong>, a perpetual calendar without chronograph, featuring a rectangular case. Two calibers for two timepieces that are the <em>Holy Grail<\/em> of <strong>IWC<\/strong> and of all entire horology, as they both embody the concept of a modern perpetual calendar: no correctors on the carrure at all while all main functions are set by simply operating the winding crown.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Novecento-Perpetual-Calendar.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Novecento Perpetual Calendar\" class=\"wp-image-58674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Novecento-Perpetual-Calendar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Novecento-Perpetual-Calendar-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Novecento-Perpetual-Calendar-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Novecento-Perpetual-Calendar-103x120.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In <strong>2012<\/strong>, <strong>IWC<\/strong> debuted the new <strong>Pilot<\/strong>\u2019s collection at the\u00a0<span style=\"color: null;\"><strong>SIHH<\/strong><\/span> and has launched the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/a-v8-bi-turbo-a-iwc-big-pilots-watch-and-como-lake\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Big Pilot\u2019s Watch<\/strong><\/a> ever to adopt a ceramic case and a perpetual calendar movement. A sporty platform housing for the first time a classic watchmaking complication that until then was more easily found inside a gold or a platinum case.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun 5\" class=\"wp-image-58660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5-120x67.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-5.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The <strong>in-house IWC caliber 51614<\/strong> that powers the <strong>IWC Big Pilot\u2019s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun<\/strong> ensures a massive <strong>7 days<\/strong> power reserve and lets you visualize at a glance date, day, month, a four digit year and the moon phases cycle, including leap years and according to the Gregorian calendar up to the <strong>year 2100<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why up to the <strong>year 2100<\/strong>? Because the leap years cycle, that lasts 4 years, changes in <strong>2100<\/strong>, so please don\u2019t forget to leave your son a memo. The moon phases visualization, available for both northern and southern hemispheres, is so precise that it deviates by only a single day after <strong>577 years<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun 4\" class=\"wp-image-58658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-4-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>To be honest a ceramic case coupled to a perpetual calendar is not big news as, unless I\u2019m mistaken, <strong>IWC<\/strong> was the first to introduce this complication when it launched the <strong>Da Vinci Zirconium<\/strong> in <strong>1986<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Ceramic-1986.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Da Vinci Ceramic 1986\" class=\"wp-image-58670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Ceramic-1986.jpg 972w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Ceramic-1986-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Ceramic-1986-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Da-Vinci-Ceramic-1986-120x53.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>So I feel pretty safe in stating that I believe that timepiece to be the forerunner of the present one. Design wise roles have changed over the years as today\u2019s <strong>Da Vinci<\/strong> has a rectangular case, and its technical successor is most probably the IWC Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar, also a chrono, but we\u2019ll discuss that in a whole new post.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun 6\" class=\"wp-image-58662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6-120x67.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-6.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The <strong>IWC Big Pilot\u2019s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun<\/strong> is bold, lavish on your wrist but, despite its <strong>48mm<\/strong> wide and <strong>16mm<\/strong> thick case, it is way lighter than its brothers with a metal case and comes mainly in two colors: <strong>matte black<\/strong> and <strong>white<\/strong>. All the relevant info are arranged on <strong>four counters<\/strong>, placed <strong>symmetrically<\/strong> on the dial, with the addition of a <strong>small window<\/strong> for the digital visualization of the year and are extremely easy to be read at first sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month ago, while at <span style=\"color: null;\"><strong>Harrods<\/strong><\/span>, I was lucky enough to wrap around my wrist the <strong>Boutique Edition<\/strong>, featuring red counters. It was mesmerizing but I do think after some time now that the standard version, photographed while visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/iwc-pilots-watches-rome-boutique\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IWC<\/strong> <strong>boutique in<\/strong> <strong>Rome<\/strong><\/a>, is way better in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-Boutique-Edition.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun boutique edition\" class=\"wp-image-58666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-Boutique-Edition.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-Boutique-Edition-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-Boutique-Edition-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-Boutique-Edition-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This timepiece is light as the ceramic has been coupled with <strong>grade 5 titanium<\/strong> for the case back and crown, cutting off an additional 50% of weight compared to a stainless steel solution. The case back is embellished with the brand logo of the <strong>Fighter Weapons School<\/strong>, also known as <strong>Top Gun<\/strong>, that has signed an agreement with <strong>IWC<\/strong> years ago. The logo is not just applied but is covered by a sapphire crystal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oversized diamond shaped crown pays homage to the early days of aviation when an aircraft\u2019s cabin was not pressurized yet and a pilot\u2019s watch was part of the on board equipment that pilots needed to activate quickly while wearing a pair of thick leather gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-2.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun 2\" class=\"wp-image-58656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-2-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-2-120x95.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The closed case back does not provide a view, unfortunately, of the <strong>IWC caliber 51614<\/strong> that features a <strong>Pellaton<\/strong> winding mechanism, a bidirectional winding rotor, a <strong>Breguet<\/strong> spring and a balance wheel made of <strong>Glucydur<\/strong>, an alloy of copper, iron and beryllium (a metal used in <strong>F1<\/strong> piston rods up to a few years ago), ensuring high thermal stability, amagnetic properties and resistance to corrosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once on your wrist the <strong>IWC Big Pilot\u2019s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun<\/strong> is imposing. It\u2019s not a watch you\u2019d wear to opening night at La Scala in Milan and is not intended as such. For that occasion a <strong>Portuguese Perpetual Calendar<\/strong> with an alligator strap would be much more appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Top Gun<\/strong> is mostly your everyday complicated wristwatch: the ceramic case and lightness, plus the fact that it is virtually 100% scratch-proof, makes it good for anything.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"IWC Big Pilots Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun 7\" class=\"wp-image-58664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7-1024x620.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7-120x73.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IWC-Big-Pilots-Watch-Perpetual-Calendar-Top-Gun-7.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I have a big wrist but, since the watch is so light, it fits even a broader audience that you might ever expect. It retails for <strong>34.600\u20ac<\/strong> but has no competitors: anybody out there who can afford one would already have a bunch of other complicated timepieces and needs no recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To those who, like me, that have many watches costing around <strong>5<\/strong>,<strong>000<\/strong>\u20ac-<strong>7<\/strong>,<strong>000<\/strong>\u20ac in their collection and are looking for something more, here is my recommendation: trade in some of those watches and try on a <strong>IWC<\/strong> <strong>Big Pilot\u2019s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo credit: IWC; Ebay; Horbiter\u00ae)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Gaetano C. @Horbiter\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all began in 1985 with the launch of a complicated timepiece, an outstanding mechanical movement and a man\u2019s engineering as exceptional as the watch itself: that man is master watchmaker Kurt Klaus. 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