IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar 3880-02 Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com IWC pulls no punches when it builds an aviation tribute watch. The IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar is a celebration of more than the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School ("Top Gun"); this watch embodies a legacy of IWC pilot watches that spans over seventy years. IWC of Schaffhausen, Switzerland was building pilot's watches when ocean liners still were considered the fastest trans-oceanic transport for sane travelers. As far back as the 1930s with the "Pilot's Special" and the 1940s with its first military ("B-Uhr") wristwatch, IWC and aviation have been inextricably linked. In the 1990s, the German-Swiss watchmakers of IWC added high-tech ceramic to their pilot line with the extraordinary - and extraordinarily rare - reference 3705 ceramic Pilots Chronograph. The circa-2000s revival of the oversized "Big Pilot" watch style of the 1940s and link-up with the U.S Navy's flagship flight training program inaugurated the era of IWC "Top Gun" models that continues to this day. This Pilots Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar is notable because it embodies references to all of the above chapters in IWC's association with aviation. Dial calibration from the B-Uhr, ceramic from the 3705, the proportions of the IWC "Big Pilot" series, and copious "Top Gun" references complete the homage to Schaffhausen's heritage aloft. At 46mm in polished ceramic, the IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar is a sports model with modern proportions, a mas