IWC has spent much of 2026 working through the colour of its sports watches, and the newest addition is the most seasonal yet: an olive-green sunray dial on the 43-millimetre Pilot's Watch Chronograph. The reference is IW378008, and it arrives around the 25th Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews, the links pro-am where IWC serves as official timing partner. It enters the permanent collection rather than a limited run.
A green dial on a familiar case
The case is the current 43mm Pilot's Chronograph in stainless steel, 14.8 millimetres thick, with a screw-in crown, a flat sapphire crystal and a second sapphire in the back. Water resistance is 100 metres, marked on the caseback as 10 bar. None of that is new; what changes is the dial. It is olive green with a sunray brush, the printed numerals, minute track and the triangle at twelve rendered in white and filled with Super-LumiNova, and the hands gold-plated rather than rhodium. The day-date sits at three o'clock in a white-on-green window. Set against the usual black-dial pilot's chronograph, the combination reads warmer and slightly dressier, which is the point of a watch tied to a golf week rather than a cockpit.
Calibre 69385 behind the sapphire
Inside is IWC's own Calibre 69385, the automatic chronograph the brand developed with Richemont's Valfleurier movement arm and has been rolling across its chronograph lines in place of outsourced bases. It is a column-wheel, bidirectionally wound movement with a 46-hour power reserve running at 28,800 vibrations per hour. The caseback engraving carries the detail IWC usually reserves for its manufacture pieces — "thirty-three (33) jewels", "adjusted to five (5) positions" — and the openworked rotor leaves most of the movement visible. The chronograph is laid out as a tri-compax: a 30-minute counter at twelve, a 12-hour counter at six, running seconds at nine, with the day and date between three o'clock and the handset.
Built around a golf week
IWC has leaned into the Dunhill tie rather than hide it. The watch was shown on-course at St Andrews, worn by the brand's ambassadors under glove and sleeve, and the olive-green dial is plainly meant to sit against fairway and tweed. It is not a limited edition and carries no special caseback or numbering for the event; the connection is in the colour and the timing of the release, not in the specification.
Price and straps
IW378008 comes on a five-link steel bracelet with IWC's EasX-CHANGE quick-release system, and the box includes a matching olive-green rubber strap that swaps without tools. Pricing is EUR 9,700 including tax, CHF 8,300 including tax, and USD 9,500 before tax — in line with the rest of the steel-bracelet Pilot's Chronograph 43 line, where here the dial colour rather than the movement sets the watch apart.
Sources: IWC Schaffhausen Pressroom and Monochrome Watches.
