IWC Pilot's Chronograph 'Le Petit Prince' Alligator-Pattern introduced the first wrist chronograph

introduced the first wrist chronograph in 1915

Mechanical alarm watches are just about the coolest thing you can strap to your wrist

interlocking seamlessly

while sales in ladies’ watches were booming

IWC Pilot's Chronograph 'Le Petit Prince' Alligator-Pattern introduced the first wrist chronographThere 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 khrnos (time) and grph (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