Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Mojave Desert 41.9mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 41.9 mm case suggests

IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Mojave Desert 41.9mm measures 50.8 mm lug-to-lug on a 41.9 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.21 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 89% of the 7,413 watches in this database and longer than 57% of the 42 IWC watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 57 mm (2.24 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 68 mm (2.68 in) it starts to look compact. Below 50.8 mm (2.00 in) the lugs are likely to overhang the wrist. Flat wrist width is measured straight across the top of the wrist, not around it.

At 15.5 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 94% of the watches with a listed thickness.