Sure, we can wax poetic about Timothée Chalamet’s various Cartiers all day. (And we do.)
But someone else (and his watch) caught our eye recently at the Dune: Part Two premiere in London this past week. Storied German composer Hans Zimmer upped the horological ante with a complicated timepiece from IWC: best replica IWC Big Pilot’s Watches Perpetual Calendar Spitfire in bronze. Launched in 2019, this heavy-hitting QP combines the Schaffhausen-based brand’s Big Pilot silhouette with a quantieme perpetuel complication, which mechanically accounts for the different lengths of months throughout the year and requires very little adjustment.
The winner of two Oscars and four Grammys, Zimmer is one of the most widely lauded film composers in contemporary cinema, having scored The Lion King, Gladiator, and much of Christopher Nolan’s cinematic oeuvre. A willing adopter of emerging technologies, Zimmer is famed for incorporating electronic elements into his scores and has earned a reputation as a cutting-edge thinker.
In 2022, Zimmer partnered with IWC on a suite of tracks inspired by the maison’s colored ceramic cheap UK fake IWC Top Gun Pilot’s Watches collection, debuting them at a concert in Geneva during that year’s Watches & Wonders trade show. For someone like Zimmer, a great appreciator of intricate machinery, the links between horology and electronic composition are surely myriad. So while he isn’t a brand ambassador per se, the partnership established with luxury IWC copy watches a couple years back has brought Zimmer into the horological fold—hence the perpetual calendar spotted on his wrist.
The wholesale 2024 replica IWC Big Pilot’s Watches Perpetual Calendar Spitfire was the pièce de resistance from the upgraded Spitfire collection that debuted in 2019: While simple time-and-date models and chronographs in stainless steel were certainly part of the lineup, the bronze-cased IWC super clone watches for men with green dials were the real show-stoppers. Slotting into the later category, the Perpetual Calendar is housed in a positively enormous 46.2mm bronze case—meaning it was a bold choice for Zimmer to strap one on with a suit jacket—and features a mesmerizing array of functions on its dial: Powered by the in-house Calibre 52615 movement, it displays the time, day, date, month, year, power reserve, and the moon phases for both hemispheres.
Essentially a small mechanical computer, the top replica IWC Big Pilot’s Watches Perpetual Calendar Spitfire has the shape and aesthetics of a timepiece from the 1940s the onion crown, large Arabic numerals, and sword hands are pure B-Ühren military watch fare—with the analog tech of a Prophet 5 synthesizer. The only question that remains? Why Zimmer neglected to rock the Swiss movements fake IWC Top Gun “Mojave Desert” version watches, whose sand-colored case looks like something fished from the deserts of Arrakis. A missed opportunity—but there’s always the next premiere.
