Pilot's Watch Chronograph Spitfire 41mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 41 mm case suggests

IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Spitfire 41mm measures 51.5 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 92% of the 7,421 watches in this database and longer than 67% 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 69 mm (2.72 in) it starts to look compact. Below 51.5 mm (2.03 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 15.3 mm thick it is on the thicker side, thicker than 94% of the watches with a listed thickness.