Heritage 48

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Heritage 48

Reference
IW510301 IW5103‐01
Case Material
Titanium
Original Release
2016
Limited edition
LE 1000
Movement
Hand-Wound
Numbering
'One out of 1000' on caseback
Dial color
Black
Size
48.0mm diameter / 14.5 mm height
Calibre
59215 (IWC in-house)
Original Strap
Brown calfskin with rivets
Other
8‐day power reserve
small aperture on back showing power reserve (soft-iron inner case against magnetic fields retained)
120g with leather strap
Engraved ‘Big Pilot’s Heritage Watch 48’ on caseback
Together with Heritage 55, these are the first hand‐wound Big Pilots since the original IWC Ref 431 ‘b‐Uhr’ of 1940 & IW500301 Bühler. As a hand-wound model with large crown, ordinarily it would be easy to overwind and damage the mechanism however this is prevented with a friction clutch.


Sub‐dial at 6 o’clock is reminiscent of IWC’s Ref 436 pilot watch from 1936