My Watch Story: A Long-Awaited IWC Pilot by Austin Lyon

“My Watch Story" is a video series starring HODINKEE readers and their most prized watches. For more stories from other collectors and to learn how to submit your own go to: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/my-watch-story-august-5 Austin, who is from New York City, fell in love with this Pilot Chrono when he first got into watches. When he was in college, and short of the funds to buy the watch, he got into leatherwork and made a 21mm strap for the watch, which he knew he'd own someday. Nine years later, when he got married, his wife gifted him the watch he'd dreamed of for almost a decade.