IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial

Quick specs IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial
Price: € 4.560 | $3,950 | approx. £ 4,000
Size: 36 mm
Reference: IW324009

IWC continues to squeeze out every possible variation of its iconic pilot’s watch. They look great, don’t get us wrong, but the enormous amount of variations is getting a bit daunting. This IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial is one of the most recent variants. It comes in the slipstream of two other models with tobacco brown dial. The IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII Edition Antoine de Saint Exupéry and the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

This 36 Brown Dial is a smaller pilot’s watch as it only measures 36 millimeters in diameter. Small for today’s standards but one that is pretty close to the original from 1936. That model is 37.5 millimeters diameter. Perhaps 36 is too small for you, it is a good size for women however. A market IWC tries to get into the last couple of years.

The IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial also has IWC’s soft-iron inner case for increased protection against magnetic fields

And it works pretty well with this subtle Pilot’s Watch. A stainless steel case with a clean dark brown dial and a slightly recessed inner circle. It gives the dial a sense of structure and depth. A date at the 3 o’clock position complements the dial with just three luminescent hands.

The IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial is ‘airworthy’. The movement is enclosed in a soft-iron inner case for increased protection against magnetic fields. The caliber inside is the IWC caliber 35111 (base Sellita caliber SW300-1) with a power-reserve of 42 hours.

The IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Brown Dial is one of the more ‘dressy’ Pilot’s Watches from IWC, certainly with its alligator leather strap made by Santoni. But as a moderately priced tool watch, mostly aimed at women, it is a fine piece to introduce them to the brand from Schaffhausen.