Pilot’s Watches

Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun

reference 5029

One of the most complex pilot's watches ever built. The IWC-manufactured movement with its 7-day power reserve drives a whole range of watchmaking complications. These include a perpetual calendar with four-digit year display together with date, day and month displays as well as a moon phase display. All the displays are easily adjusted via the crown.

Highlights

  • Pellaton automatic winding
  • 7-day power reserve
  • Perpetual calendar
  • Power reserve display
  • Diameter 48 mm
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HAUTE HORLOGERIE FOR THE COCKPIT

High technology meets Haute Horlogerie: the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN comes with a wealth of features that will send the adrenaline levels of watch lovers soaring. They include the IWC-manufactured 51614-calibre movement with high-performance Pellaton winding system that builds up a 7-day power reserve. This efficient movement drives multiple watchmaking complications. Apart from displays for the date, day and month, the perpetual calendar has a four-digit year display that takes into account all the leap years in the Gregorian calendar until the year 2100. All these displays can be easily adjusted with the crown and advance automatically. The moon phase display represents the position of the moon in the northern and southern hemispheres. The Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN combines the classic instrument look with the sport-inspired design of the TOP GUN line. The ceramic case and titanium crown are further indications of IWC Schaffhausen’s innovative technology and a reminder that it discovered these materials for use in its products. This timepiece is one of the most complex pilot’s watches ever built.

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Details

  • Reference IW502902
  • Case Material ceramic/titanium
  • Bracelet/Strap black soft strap
  • Dial Colour black
  • Jewels 62
  • Mechanical movement
  • Pellaton automatic winding
  • 7-day power reserve when fully wound
  • Power reserve display
  • Perpetual calendar with displays for the date, day and month
  • Perpetual moon phase display
  • Double moon phases for the northern and southern hemispheres
  • Four-digit year display
  • Small hacking seconds
  • Glucydur® beryllium alloy balance with high-precision adjustment cam on balance arms
  • Breguet spring
  • Rotor with 18-carat gold medallion
  • Screw-in crown
  • Sapphire glass, convex, antireflective coating on both sides
  • Secured against displacement by drop in air pressure
  • Water-resistant 6 bar
  • Case height 16 mm
  • Diameter 48 mm

  • *IWC Schaffhausen is not the owner of the Glucydur® trademark.

Watch Viewer

  • IW5029 Watch Front
  • IW5029 Watch Back

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Perpetual Calendar

Analogue date displays with hands have a long tradition in IWC watches featuring perpetual calendars. In the case of the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, for instance, the date, day and month are to be found on three subdials and, thanks to the clear layout, are extremely easy to read. The classic moon phase display – whether a single moon, or a double one for the northern and southern hemispheres – is based on discs and is usually found at “12 o’clock”. The moon phase displays used in the Grande Complication and the Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Edition Kurt Klaus are astonishingly accurate and deviate by just 0.002 percent, or one day, after 122 years. The Portuguese Perpetual Calendar is even more precise. Larger moon phase wheels with different numbers of teeth reduce the deviation so drastically that a future inheritor of the watch would theoretically need to take it to a watchmaker to have it adjusted by only one day in 577.5 years.

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