Hands-on: IWC Pilot's Watch Timezoner Chronograph Replica

IWC Pilot Timezoner replica was developed to be an ideal travel companion. A quick spin of the bezel suffices to show a new time zone, and a built-in flyback chronograph makes this an exceptional timepiece at a reasonable price.

Timezoner

The names of 24 cities are displayed on the bezel of IWC Pilot Timezoner chronograph IW395001 replica; each one represents one of the international time zones. The bezel is pushed down on opposing sides with the thumb and forefinger. The desired time zone (or, during the daylight saving time, the small “S” just before the city name) is then turned to the “12 o’clock” position. The movement of the bezel is transferred to the hour wheel, 24-hour display and date advance wheel, ensuring that all three displays can be adjusted forwards or backwards in one-hour steps. Drive for the normal movement of the hour hand and its “jump” when the time zone is changed is provided via a differential gear.

If you’re staying at an exotic location and want to know what time it is at home, or if you’re at home and you want to know what time it is elsewhere in the world, simply exert pressure evenly downward against the bezel and turn IWC’s Timezoner replica until the desired location swings into the 12 o’clock position: a fascinating pastime.

Technologies

To create the mechanism required for this complication, IWC’s engineers brought together three technologies to IWC Pilot Timezoner chronograph replica. The first of these is the city ring found on the Pilot’s Watch Worldtimer, on which the name of each city stands for one of the international time zones. The second technology is the spring-mounted rotating bezel, first used in the Porsche Design Ocean 2000 from the 1980s, which can only be moved if pressure is applied simultaneously on two diametrically opposing sides. This prevents accidental resetting of the time zone. The third technology is the external/internal rotating bezel taken from the Aquatimer, which transmits the movement of the bezel via a differential gear to the hour wheel, 24-hour hand and date advance wheel.

Calibre Family 89000

The 89360 calibre, introduced in 2007, was the first manufacture chronograph movement to be completely developed in Schaffhausen. In this movement, the hours and minutes are combined in a totalizer at 12 o’clock. This makes it just as easy to read a stop time of 8 hours and 54 minutes as it is to check the current time. The 89365 version features the stop minutes and seconds function as well as a flyback function. Further developments to the 89800 calibre eventually involved incorporating the big digital date and month display as used, for example, in the Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month. Other complications can also be found in the 89630 calibre with perpetual calendar and the 89900 with tourbillon.

Specifications

Reference : IW395001
Case Material : stainless steel
Bracelet/Strap : black calfskin strap
Dial Colour : black dial with luminescence
Movement : Calibre 89760, Mechanical chronograph movement, Self-winding, 68-hour power reserve when fully wound
Date display : 24-hour display for Worldtimer function
Class : Sapphire glass, convex, antireflective coating on both sides
Water-resistant : 6 bar
Case height : 16.5 mm
Diameter : 45 mm
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