Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41

How it wears

Wears larger than its 41 mm case suggests

IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 measures 51.8 mm lug-to-lug on a 41 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.26 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 94% of the 7,413 watches in this database and longer than 69% of the 42 IWC watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 58 mm (2.28 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 70 mm (2.76 in) it starts to look compact. Below 51.8 mm (2.04 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 14.6 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 89% of the watches with a listed thickness.