Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

In Context

At 41 mm it is sized to the current mainstream: 40 mm is the median across every watch measured in this catalogue. At 14.5 mm it is a tall case, and it will catch on a cuff. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. 100 m is genuine swimming resistance — more than the shape of this watch suggests it would need.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 46 hours of reserve carries it overnight, but not through a weekend in a drawer. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

IW3881-14 is one of 15 executions of the IW3881 base reference. Underneath they are the same watch; what separates this one is a black sunburst dial and a titanium case. Introduced in 2023. Beyond the time it carries a chronograph.

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Blue · Stainless Steel

IW3881-01 · 41 mm

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Blue · Stainless Steel

IW3881-02 · 41 mm

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Green · Stainless Steel

IW3881-03 · 41 mm

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Blue · Stainless Steel

IW3881-04 · 41 mm

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Black · Stainless Steel

IW3881-05 · 41 mm

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Green · Ceratanium

IW3881-06 · 41 mm

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Red · Stainless Steel

IW3881-07 · 41 mm

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Black · Titanium

IW3881-08 · 41 mm

+ 6 more variants in this family.

The 69385 is the in-house chronograph of the Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 of 2021 and the Performance Chronograph of 2024. It is a 69000-family movement with a day and date. It powers 30 watches in this library, every one a Pilot's Watch. The 69000 calibers replaced IWC's Valjoux-based chronographs from 2016 with a column wheel, a pawl-winding system related to the Pellaton mechanism and a 46-hour reserve at 28,800 vph. The 69385 has 33 jewels at 30 mm across and 7.9 mm high, with the day and date at 3 o'clock and the counters at 6, 9 and 12. It brought the Pilot's Chronograph to a 41 mm case for the first time. In the library it powers 30 [Pilot's Watch](/brands/iwc/pilot) references: the Chronograph 41 in steel with blue and green dials, the Top Gun and the Petronas Performance Chronographs at 42.5 mm and 43 mm. 3 are limited editions. The [69380](/calibers/iwc-69380) is the same movement in the 43 mm and Top Gun chronographs of 2019, the [69375](/calibers/iwc-69375) its Ingenieur version, and the [79320](/calibers/iwc-79320) the Valjoux-based chronograph the family replaced.

29 other watches in the library run the IWC 69385.

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Pilot's Watch Performance Chronograph 41 722 Edition

IW3883-08 · 42.5 mm

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Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 Stainless Steel / Black

IW3881-11 · 41 mm

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Pilot's Watch Chronograph AMG

IW3779-03 · 43 mm

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Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 Red Gold / Green

IW3881-10 · 41 mm