There is perhaps no more versatile complication than the chronograph. 

From race cars to rocket ships, boats to battlefields, you are likely to find a chronograph being employed to measure a plethora of tasks and times. From the Greek khrónos (“time”) and gráphō (“to write”), a chronograph is a watch that has the ability to record time, generally via the addition of small sub-counters that register minutes and hours. 

And what better use for a chronograph than within the confines of a pilot’s watch? IWC makes some of the finest pilot’s watches in the world, with a history stretching back to the early decades of the 20th century. 

This particular watch, the Pilot’s Watch 'Spitfire' Chronograph, features a 43mm stainless steel case with a domed sapphire crystal, pump pushers, a signed crown, and a flawless sunburst grey dial with applied luminous 'Arabic' indices and radial finished subsidiary registers and a matching 'sword' handset. It comes paired to a signed brown alligator leather strap with a signed steel pin buckle and IWC's Calibre 89365 flyback chronograph movement within.

Handsome, well sized and featuring a knockout movement, it would be tough to argue that this isn’t one of the best values in chronographs available today - full stop.