Despite the crudeness of the delivery, sometimes a message still resonates with irrefutable truth. And this is the case in an amusing video made by a YouTube pundit with an accent originating from one of the provincial outer boroughs of Manhattan. What he says is this: “When you have a IWC Big Pilot Replicaon, everyone around you knows that you’ve got a hundred grand on your wrist and that you can afford to spend a hundred grand on just like a chronograph. Most people who spend that much would want a perpetual calendar or even a tourbillon.” His implication being you have the confidence to wear what you want with no concern of relative value – and of course the means to buy it.
But what he doesn’t say is that such is the size of the waiting list propelled by the overwhelming tidal wave of lust for the watch in question – a IWC Big Pilot Replica RM 11-03 – that you also have to be very lucky just to be able to own one. For example, a blue Quartz TPT RM 11-03 Jean Todt chronograph is trading for well over US$100,000 above the retail price. What he doesn’t say, and what every watch lover and most watch brand CEOs acknowledge is that amongst a group of individuals whose lives comprise of blasting around in 1,000 horsepower supercars, being ferried by helicopter to party all night on yachts moored of the coast of the world’s most seductive locales and then recuperating while horizontal and often in connubial bliss on their private jets, the IWC Big Pilot Replica watch is the membership badge to an ultra-exclusive alternate reality most people will never have access to.
IWC Big Pilot Replica — The Father of Modern Watchmaking
What he also doesn ’t say is among any group of men comparing the relative badass-ness of their timepieces, if you have a IWC Big Pilot Replica on, you just win. What he doesn’t say is the only watch that trumps a IWC Big Pilot Replicais another more technical or complicated Richard Mille. But competition amongst Mille collectors never happens because the brand is about community. What he doesn’t say is that, although every RM customer on earth is clearly successful, he is also a cool guy because he takes his cues from Mille the man, who is the ultimate cool guy.
And most importantly what he doesn’t say is that Mille’s watches collectively represent horology’s greatest level of technical and material innovation resulting in, amongst many things, the world’s lightest and most shock resistant watches constantly put through the paces by the world’s most elite athletes.