69385

About the IWC 69385

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 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 is the same movement in the 43 mm and Top Gun chronographs of 2019, the 69375 its Ingenieur version, and the 79320 the Valjoux-based chronograph the family replaced.