IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Stainless Steel Black Dial & Steel Bezel Leather Strap IW501001 - BRAND NEW

IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Stainless Steel Black Dial & Steel Bezel Leather Strap IW501001 - BRAND NEW

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INFORMATION

Condition
Brand New
Box/Papers
Box & Papers
Brand
IWC
Production Year
2010-2020 Recent
Model Number
IW501001
Series
Pilot’s Watch

CASE

Crown
Screw Down
Bezel
Stainless Steel Domed
Movement
Automatic
Case Back
Solid
Material
Stainless Steel
Case Size
46 mm
Case Shape
Round

DIAL

Dial Type
Analog
Dial Color
Black
Dial Markers
Arabic
Hands
Luminous

BRACELET

Band Material
Leather
Clasp
Fold-Over Clasp

ADDITIONAL INFO

Watch Style
Sports Watch
Gender
Men's
Complication
Date, Power Reserve
 

Description

Hey, welcome back to Jaztime. Jaztime.com is an online store, that buys, sells and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watches for yourself, in the comfort of your own home. We offer lowest prices anywhere online. If you'd like to know the price, simply click on the links in the description below. We greatly appreciate if you purchase your next watch from us at Jaztime.com. Today, we'll be going over an IWC Schaffhausen. IW501001. A Big Pilot's Watch. Excuse me. In a stainless steel case and black calfskin strap. All right, so we'll be doing an unboxing first to show you what you get in the box. So opening it up. We have the little case here for the watch itself. There's also a little drawer here that has the warranty as well. A little certification for the strap, and of course, all of the booklets necessary to go with that watch. So I'm going to put all of these in here, because there's really not much to say about, the warranty is the warranty, certainly. And now onto the watch itself, let me lower you down here. And here it is, in a plastic wrap there. There's also a little pillow that it comes around. And little hang tags here, so I'll cut that off real quick. So hang tag one and hang tag two removed, and peeling off this little plastic here. And there's your watch with the black dial and the power reserve at the three o'clock position. Now, let me set all this stuff down here and we clear my area. Place it all back nicely in here. Now, here is the watch. The Big Pilot's Watch reference number 501001. Again, all stainless steel case. The diameter measures 46.2 millimeters. So quite a thick boy, quite chunky as well at 15.5 millimeters. And you wouldn't really expect anything less because this is an aviator watch, it's a pilot's watch. It's made to be large, really easy to read, fully utilitarian, not really going much for style. But, as you'll get into this video, you'll see that there's quite a bit of style actually, to go with this. At the lug to lug distance, I personally measured is about, let's see, I believe I wrote it down here. It was 56 millimeters. That's a huge watch to go on the wrist, especially mine, which is a 7.25 or 7.5 inch wrist, depending on the day, of course. But that's quite a large feat to accomplish here. Now, the way that this all works is that it has a water resistance down to 60 meters. So, or 6 bar, that's 60 meters underwater. So, surface swimmable at most. Definitely wash your hands while you can wear this watch, but you don't really need to do much more than that. Again, you're going to be up in the air with this or on land, you're not gonna be diving with this. It's not really made for diving. Now, taking a look at the overall finishing here. We have mostly brushed finishing all along the sides, but there's a tiny, tiny little- Let me see if I can zoom in here. The tiniest high polish on that tiny bevel on those lugs, that sort of flares outward as it reaches the terminal there. So it's a very, very nice touch from IWC to put that tiny bit, that sort of outlines the profile, the side profiles, as well as the front. When you're viewing it from just about any angle. And taking a look at the dial here, there's not really much of a bezel that's talk about here. It's a brush finish along the side, matches that of the case, with a high polish ring to sort of highlight or give a bit of an outline almost to the dial. Again, a glare proofed sapphire crystal, it's slightly domed on the front. You can't really feel it but it's certainly there. It's a very, very slight dome on the top. And looking at the dial, black dial. And it also has applied luminescence for all of those numbers. We have Arabic numerals going all the way around, the 12 being the IWC logo there. There's a date at the six o'clock taking up the number six. So it's a very nicely balanced. The only sort of sense of imbalance you would get, would be this power reserve that goes actually all the way up to seven days. And taking a look at how this works, we can simply unwind the crown to the first position. And winding it clockwise, as you can see, increases that power reserve all the way up. And as I continue to rotate this, the damping is building up, but very, very slowly. So, if you can't see the power reserve that well, or maybe you're busy keeping a lookout because you're flying your plane. You can just sort of feel the power reserve go up with that sort of mechanical, that haptic feedback sort of. Very minute, but you can definitely feel it. The damping is starting to go up noticeably for me. Really hard to demonstrate that, you'd actually have to do it yourself. But note that the power reserve has gone all the way up to seven days. And so that's how it works. And pull it out to the next position. You can, I believe change the date by rotating it counterclockwise, rotating the crown counterclockwise. It's about a half turn, or somewhere between a quarter turn and a half turn to advance the date by one. It may actually be a full half turn. So, the throW is pretty large. But with a crown, this big, you're not gonna have any trouble advancing the date forward. Really simple there, pull the crown out to the final position, and note that it hacks that seconds hand with that very nice counterweight to the back there. It gives it sort of that aerodynamic look, and doing so allows you to then move the minute hand to any sort of position, precisely, so you can then press the crown all the way back in. Wind it tightly back against the case to ensure that 60 meters of water resistance. And now I did say that this does have a luminescent coding on the numbers. So turning out the lights so you can actually see, well, not luminescence on the numbers themselves, but the triangle at the 12 o'clock, with these index markers at the 12, 6, 3 and 9. As well as the hour hands and minute hand, they glow very, very brightly. There are almost clipping my highlights here on my camera. So yeah, you can see it very clearly. And as long as you, I would assume that if you are wearing a watch like this, you would know the positions of all the hour hands. So it would be relatively easy to read the time, even in the dark. And so, excuse me. When it comes to all of those features together, what makes this all work? It's the IWC in house movement, the 52110 caliber. It's an automatic cell finding caliber that goes up to 168 hours of power reserve. As you can see on the dial, it goes up to seven days. It beats at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour or 4Hz, matching that of the highest beat watches, say, Rolex or even the highest, the creme de la creme of say, Audemars Piguet, or even Patek Philippe. It also has a total of 31 jewels with 257 total parts. It also has the Cotes de Geneve under, well on the movement, but you can't see it unfortunately. And actually taking a look at this case back here, it does have an image of the airplane that really signifies that it is certainly for aviation or aviators. Because this is entirely a practical watch. It's not there necessarily for dress. However, you do have this leather strap, calfskin leather strap. So it does have a bit of luxury. It can be used very well within, say the airline industry, for example, or any sort of official business where glancing at the watch is all you need. And having the ability to grab the time, or understand where you are with your power reserve. That's all you really need with this sort of watch. That's what you will certainly get. And when it comes to this strap, it's a bit thick, but it's made to weather the storm. It's made to go through the air, it's made to withstand anything, it's very thick, but that doesn't mean it isn't bendable. It's very, very comfortable actually. And also looking at the pin buckle here. It is a deployment buckle, fold over, single fold over with stainless steel brushing on the front with a little bit of a, almost sandblasted look for that IWC logo. High polish, again, along the bevel there to give it that really nice highlighted look. And I'm not going to guess at my personal wrist size here. So I'm just gonna throw it on and tell you how it feels. So now this is actually quite large for me. But again, this watch is a chunker, it's large. 56 millimeters lug to lug in height. That's a very tall boy and certainly on my wrist, 7.25 to 7.5 inches in circumference, about average for my build. No, it's huge. But seeing the way that the lugs work, they sort of cut in or they more extend out rather, from the case body which hugs the dial. And so you do get a good framing actually of the leather straps on either side. Even though, you could have a tiny wrist like mine in comparison to a watch of this size. Again, 15.6 millimeters in thickness. You're not gonna get this under a suit cuff easily. But if you're flying, if you're doing official business, you're really busy, you're going out and actually getting into the field. You're probably not gonna be wearing a dress suit with a watch like this. This is purely utilitarian. This is for people who need to get out. This is a very good everyday watch, even, for anyone who is looking to get into a very easy to read watch. You may not have the best vision, but certainly this watch will deliver. So when it comes to the overall weight, it's actually pretty light for how it looks. It feels as if this would have been made of titanium, but IWC made this entirely out of stainless steel. So for its size, very light. That's not to say that you don't notice it. Because the counterweight of all of this leather, the calfskin leather with the tiny bit of steel that you get in the clasp here, does not really counter the weight of this watch all that much. But I can't knock anyone out with this. This is a very light watch for what it is, for the size, even as well. Also note that some extra features I forgot to go over. The inside of the case actually also protects from magnetic fields. So very important and very, very important if you are traveling through the air or traveling a lot. There could be any, some disturbances in magnetic fields, who knows, anything could happen. But you don't want the time to be affected by that. And, so while the movement itself doesn't have any sort of coding within their springs, the case itself is protection against the elements for the movement. So, enough of what I think, what do you think about this watch? Do you have any sort of use that you can think of for an aviator watch like this? I personally don't really see much of an appeal, but I'd love to see you prove me wrong down in the comments below. Let me know. Why would you buy an aviator watch? Of course, if you are unable to see very well, maybe you could be legally blind, but you can still wear a watch like this for. It has that excellent wrist presence. It makes it seem that you know, and you certainly do know your stuff if you're wearing something like this. The IWC Big Pilot, 501001 model. Entirely stainless steel, black calfskin strap with a width of 22 millimeters, by the way as well. So let us know down in the comments below, would you wear this watch and what would you wear it for? 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