Pilot's Watch Spitfire 39mm

How it wears

Wears larger than its 39 mm case suggests

IWC Pilot's Watch Spitfire 39mm measures 50 mm lug-to-lug on a 39 mm case, a lug-to-lug ratio of 1.28 against a database median of 1.18. That span is longer than 82% of the 7,413 watches in this database and longer than 50% of the 42 IWC watches listed.

A flat wrist width of 56 mm (2.20 in) or more keeps it in the balanced range, and from 67 mm (2.64 in) it starts to look compact. Below 50 mm (1.97 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 10.9 mm thick it is on the slim side, thinner than 74% of the watches with a listed thickness.