At Watches and Wonders 2022, IWC dazzles your eyes with the snow-white ceramic Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition Lake Tahoe and calms you back down again with the camouflaged green Woodland. Many people have told me that I have gone beige lately. And that's right, I like a bit of beige in a watch IWC's Mohave models, for instance, but also the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Small Seconds I tried not too long ago. With that knowledge, you would expect me to prefer the blended-in Woodland over the blizzard-like Lake Tahoe. But it's the black-and-white Lake Tahoe that stole my heart.Love at first sight. It happened to me back in August 2021 in Geneva during a visit to the IWC boutique. It was a preview of things to come, and many new and pretty watches came to the table. But when the Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition Lake Tahoe came up, I forgot every watch I'd seen till that point. And come to think of it, I also have no recollection of anything that was shown after that snowstorm of a watch. Back at Fratello HQ, I told all the Fratelli about the sharpest pilot's chronograph I had ever seen. Several months passed, and only in February of this year did that watch and I get to see each other again. And only now, another couple of months later, can I finally share the feelings I have for this particular IWC with you. I will also say a few words about the Woodland, but please, don't expect too much. I'm (snow)blinded by the Lake Tahoe.Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition Lake Tahoe White but not coldYou might recognize the 44.5? 15.7mm white ceramic case from something. Well, that something was the space-traveling Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition Inspiration4 (IW389110) with a blue dial depicting the galaxy, of which four were made and later auctioned for charity. You would suspect that a pitch-black dial is way less spectacular than one made to look like a starry night. But you'd be wrong. The ultimate contrast between black and white seals the deal. The combination is so powerful, so sharp, so crisp, it just leaves me speechless. This new IWC makes perfect sense too. Functionally, I mean. A pilot's watch is all about functionality. So it should wear comfortably, work flawlessly, and be both easy to operate and easy to read. BingoThe Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition Lake Tahoe ticks all the boxes.Ceramic experienceIWC's wealth of experience with ceramic cases is comforting. In 1986, IWC chose hard and scratch-resistant ceramic for the Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Ref. 3755, which came in both a black and a mesmerizing white case. A black pilot's watch in ceramic debuted in 1994 with the Pilot's Chronograph Ceramic Ref. 3705. Nowadays, IWC produces Pilots Watch models in a range of colors. There's the blue Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition Blue Angels, for instance, and the beige Big Pilot's Watch Top Gun Edition Mojave Desert.IWC and Pantone, the color company best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), have even named the specific color of the new white ceramic case IWC Lake Tahoe. The pushers and crown are made of stainless steel, while the case back is executed in titanium. And the matching white rubber strap blends in with the case and stands out on your wrist. Unless, of course, you're wearing the polar-white flight suit that is standard gear when you're an X-Wing starfighter pilot stationed on the ice planet Hoth. In that case, the Lake Tahoe is a perfectly camouflaged piece of watch kit.