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 Chronograph 'Le Petit Prince', features a 43mm stainless steel case with pump pushers, a signed screw-down crown, a sapphire crystal, IWC's Calibre 79320 automatic-winding chronograph movement with a day and date complication, and an excellent brown Santoni leather strap with a signed steel pin buckle.

This piece remains in outstanding, lightly worn condition and comes with all of its goodies.

Handsome, well sized and featuring a knockout movement, it would be tough to argue that this reference 3879 isn’t one of the best values in pilot’s chronographs available today.