IWC Pilot's Watches for Father and Son

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Pilot's Watches for Father and Son is a set of pilot's watches by IWC.

Unusual combination of a large and a small pilot's watches model, especially suitable as a family piece and gift. According to IWC CEO Georges Kern, this is a suggestion of his son. This had always complained that he had no IWC. Kern made it the idea to connect father and son as partners by possessing a pairwise conceived watch creation.

Behind the father model hides the legendary Big Pilot's Watch by IWC with the manufacture calibre 51111; the case is made of the valuable material platinum. The smaller edition for the son technically corresponds to the 39 mm pilot's watch Mark XVI with its stainless steel case and the self-winding movement Cal. 30110.

The inner circle of the casebacks of both watches is reserved for name engraving.

Father & Son models were produced from 2006 through 2013 with a brown strap. A black strap option was also offered the first year.

Reference:

IW5004-13, platinum (father)
IW3255-12, stainless steel, brown strap (son)
IW3255-19, stainless steel, black strap (son)

Movement:

IW500413 (father)
Self-winding manufacture movement IWC 51111, 21,600 A/h
Pellaton winding system
Glucydur beryllium alloy balance wheel with high-precision adjustment cam on the balance bars
Breguet hairspring
42 jewels
Power reserve 7 days (168 h)
IW325512 (son)
Self-winding movement IWC 30110 (base ETA 2892-A2), 28,800 A/h
21 jewels
Power reserve 42 h

Case:

Platinum (father) or stainless steel (son)
Ø 46.2 mm, H 15.8 mm (father), Ø 39 mm, H 11.5 mm (son)
Domed sapphire crystal with anti-glare treatment on both sides, and secured against displacement by drop in air pressure
Screw-in crown
Waterproof to 60 m

Dial:

Rhodinated with luminous yellow numerals, indexes and hands

Functions:

Hours, minutes
Central seconds with hacking seconds
Date indication
Power reserve indicator (father)

Bracelet:

Brown crocodile leather strap with tang-type buckle or, by special order and for an extra consideration, with folding clasp