Perhaps no brand is better known for their pilots watches than IWC. When establishing a brand as the king of a segment, one must provide frequent displays of power to assert dominance over subjects and challengers alike. Among a largely refreshed pilot lineup for SIHH 2016, we find a welcome and very cool spin on IWCs Pilots Worldtimer, the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph (debuted here) that we got to see hands-on. Using a unique in-house movement with a connected bezel system, you can set and update the local time and its 24-hour display by turning the bezel. This is a rather entertaining, useful, and approachable feature on a watch designed to simplify the jump from one timezone to another.Carrying the reference 3905, this automatic chronograph is 45mm wide with a steel case which, including the bezel, is some 16.5mm thick. With a solid caseback and an anti-reflective sapphire crystal (that is specially secured against rapid pressure decreases), the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph meets all of IWCs requirements for a pilots watch and is water resistant to 60 meters. The IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph watchs useful feature list is supported by IWCs calibre 89760, a 4hz movement that offers 68 hours of power reserve, a date at three, hours (max: 12) and minutes recorded on the sub dial at twelve, and a jumping hour travel function. The IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph not only features a unique way of changing timezones, it also uses a somewhat strange worldtime/GMT display that links the local 12-hour hand with the 24-hour hand (the one with the red tip). So, unlike a omega GMT Master II, where the local hand and the GMT hand are independently set to track local and home time (respectively), the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph watchs additional hand is meant only to show 24-hour time (AM/PM) in the timezone selected by the bezel.So how does it actually function? The sprung bezel is captive, so it has to be depressed before it will spin (like on an IWC 3536). Press the bezel down and turn it in either direction to set the local and 24-hour hands backwards or forwards. If you cross the date line, the date will advance or retreat accordingly. With the watch set correctly, you can simply turn the bezel until your new local city is at twelve and the time will be updated to suit the new locale. Cities with daylight saving time have a small s position that will enable a summer setting to ensure the correct time is shown. The entire process is done without affecting the movements accuracy or halting the progress of the seconds or minute hand.As the timezone change is so simple and so quick, the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph manages to cover the spread between traditional crown-operated jump-hour GMTs (like the GMT Master II) and 24-hour independent hands that offer a view of a second timezone but no handy way of updating the current time to a new zone. Jump-hour GMTs are great for travel, and 2nd timezone GMTs are great for quickly checking the time in another timezone (when making an international call, for example) but the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph can quickly show you both the local time and AM/PM in any timezone, and you dont even have to do so much as touch the crown. I am a huge fan of GMT watches, and the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph is one of the coolest iterations Ive ever come across. While its hard to beat the functionality of a GMT chronograph, the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronographs impressive bezel design is a noteworthy and welcome step forward in terms of simplicity and ergonomics. With a complicated in-house movement and a unique interfaced bezel design, the IWC Pilots Timezoner Chronograph carries a list price of $11,900. iwc.com [...]