LIMITED EDITION OF 100 PIECES
IWC Schaffhausen presents the “Lewis Hamilton” Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition. The British racing driver created the distinctive timepiece together with IWC’s designers.
As a six-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton sets the ultimate standard and not just as part of motorsport’s elite. He also doesn’t miss a beat when it comes to fashion and lifestyle either. Luxurious streetwear, trendy suits and unusual accessories with his daring and expressive sense of style, Hamilton uses fashion as a way to communicate his distinct point of view on global culture. Now, he and IWC have designed a spectacular watch together.
“This partnership with IWC was incredibly exciting for me, and it’s been an honor to collaborate so closely with the watchmakers in Schaffhausen,” said Hamilton. “Together, we’ve designed a beautiful timepiece which combines two things I am really passionate about craftsmanship and design and I am so pleased with the result.”
“Lewis approached us with the idea of a watch in Bordeaux-red and gold,” explained Christian Knoop, IWC’s head designer. “Our starting point was the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar a favourite model of Hamilton’s, who is also an acknowledged expert in Haute Horlogerie. We decided on a case made of black ceramic with hints of gold and a Bordeaux-red dial and textile strap. This combination radiates understated luxury.”
Technical Specifications – Ref. IW503002
The case, in black ceramic with an 18kt rose gold caseback, measures 46.5mm x 15.9mm. It has a convex AR-coated sapphire crystal, a sapphire display back, and it is water resistant to 60 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic IWC in-house caliber 52615 with 54 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 7 days (168 hours.). It features the Pellaton winding system. Gold rotor. Functions are: hours, minutes, seconds. Perpetual calendar displaying the date, day, month and year to four figures and perpetual lunar phase (with a single day deviation every 577.5 years) for both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Power reserve display.
The dial is Bordeaux-red with gold-plated luminous hands and markers.
It comes on a Bordeaux-red textile strap with a titanium buckle.
