IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar Miami Boutique Limited Edition: High Flyer for the High Rise (VIDEO)

The IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Miami Boutique Limited Edition is a watch that only makes sense in the context of South Florida’s luxury watch lifestyle.

With its outrageous combination of an IWC Big Pilot case in 48mm stainless steel, a perpetual calendar, and exuberant sub-tropical yellow highlights, this 50-piece limited edition has the pulse and rhythm of the western hemisphere’s wristwatch capital.

Excess is the rule in Miami. Supercars cause gridlock in South Beach; Shaq briefly worked as a Miami PD deputy; yacht berths downtown feature *underwater* lights to showcase the bottom of the boats… This is a town where you can drive from one IWC boutique to the next in 20 minutes – and there’s only 11 total in the US!

Speaking of which, this IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Miami Boutique Edition debuted in January 2015 to commemorate the opening of the *second* Miami-area IWC Boutique. Situated in the heart of Miami’s chic midtown Design District, the newest IWC boutique combines the unlikely tandem of modernism and old-world warmth. Like the IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Miami, it’s a thematic odd couple that works shockingly well.

So yes, a perpetual calendar on an IWC Big Pilot makes perfect sense in Miami Beach. And yes, it should be yellow, because we style down here. Plus, what gets you seen also gets seen by you, and legibility of all practical functions is excellent.

A traditional IWC Big Pilot dial with instrument-inspired calibrations charts the progress of civil time. The departure from tradition is IWC’s incorporation of a comprehensive perpetual calendar display. Based on an original IWC mechanism envisioned by legendary watchmaker Kurt Klaus, the IWC perpetual display tracks the day, date, month, year, decade, century, and phase of the moon. Both northern and southern hemisphere moon phases are displayed concurrently.

Best of all, IWC’s system is as easy to set as a conventional date window; just turn the crown, and all indications advance in coordinated sequence. The IWC perpetual calendar displays cannot go out-of-synch with each other.

Beneath the intricate flight deck-style dial is a movement to match. IWC’s caliber 51614 keeps the beat with a seven day power reserve, a rugged free-sprung escapement, and a graceful Breguet hairspring to resist positional timing variations.

IWC’s Pellaton winding system has benefitted from high-efficiency ceramic rotor bearings, but cal. 51614 enhances the celebrated IWC winding device with new ceramic pawl components. As a result, IWC has declared this movement to be the most durable and low-maintenance variant of the caliber 50000 series since its year 2000 debut.

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