Are these IWC Pilot/Spitfire replicas accurate?

[watchcollector]

Are they accurate? The Little Prince Pilot is a special edition only in gold, not steel, as far as I know. The second watch, the Spitfire, has the seconds subdial at 6 o'clock, not at 9 o'clock. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[watchcollector]

Any IWC expert to help me?

 

[dev1ant]

Neither are.

 

[watchcollector]

Can you be more precise about the tells? Especially on the first one...

 

[dev1ant]

You already specified the basic but essentially obvious tells. Case doesn't exist in steel, there's an older LPP model that's similar with stainless steel but it's a triple date window like the 3777-01. The second one is obvious because all new IWCs use a modified seconds at 6 with hour at 9, no bueno.

Try finding a 3777-14 or 3777-06 if you want a blue dial

 

[watchcollector]

Thank you, mate, exactly as I was thinking. I saw that they have repped the gold version, too. That would mean the gold one is accurate? From the pics, the subdials seem to have a lighter blue when compared to the gen. It's just a light trick, an optical illusion?

 

[dev1ant]

Not sure if they even got the case colour right tbh as I haven't seen the actual rep for it yet

 

[Hobgoblin351]

Just got mine . Other than the obvious, secondary at 9. It is great. If that matters then dont but otherwise love mine. Also got it from Andrew at Trusty Time