It may have been the year of the Big Pilot for IWC, but as 2021 comes to a close they have turned their mind to dress watches, launching a new Portugeiser. This latest version of the Portugieser Hand-Wound Tourbillon has… Read More ›
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NEW: IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN Ceratanium® and Pilot’s Watch Timezoner TOP GUN Ceratanium®
You may recall our post earlier this year about the Big Pilot Big Pilot’s Watch Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition “IWC Racing”. Limited to fifteen pieces, this new watch combines IWC’s constant-force tourbillon with a matte black Ceratanium® case and the Big… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches and Wonders Geneva 2022
Watches & Wonders Geneva have announced an in-person fair for 2022 that will also be a digital fair, as was the case for the pandemic-affected 2020 and 2021 editions. It will be held from 30 March to April 5, 2022,… Read More ›
NEW: IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Constant-Force Tourbillon Edition “IWC Racing”
Launched in 2013, IWC’s Ingenieur Constant-Force Tourbillon was a movement development that had segued from the Portugieser Sidérale Scafusia and powered by the then-new Calibre 94800. The movement found its way into the Portugieser Constant-Force Tourbillon and has appeared in… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar
The perpetual calendar complication has found its way into a many different IWC models since it was developed by Kurt Klaus in the 1980s. In the Big Pilot collection family, into which it made its first appearance in 2006 (a… Read More ›
NEW: IWC launches new ‘TimberTex’ straps
The gradual shift by watch brands into being more sustainable, item by item, continues, with IWC’s launch of their new TimberTex straps, made from a paper-based material. This new material is composed of 80% natural plant fibres. The cellulose used… Read More ›
NEW: IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition “Tribute to 3705”
Perhaps its significance was clear only in hindsight, but 1994 was a ‘bit of a year’ as they say, for IWC. The most widely known reason for this was the release, that year, of the Mark XII, which had been… Read More ›
NEW: IWC Timezoner Edition “Le Petit Prince”
In 2016 IWC welcomed the Timezoner Chronograph, distinguished by its integration of a flyback chronograph with a patented world time function, into its Pilot’s Watch collection courtesy of the Timezoner Chronograph. This ability to adjust a 24-hour second time zone… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Geneva 2021 to be digital
April 2021 may seem far away but in fair organisation terms, especially amidst COVID-19, it is not, and so the perhaps expected announcement by Watches & Wonders that next year’s Geneva fair will again be solely digital, has come to… Read More ›
NEW: TRIWA ‘Time for Oceans Arctic’ recycled watches
We admittedly don’t tend to cover inexpensive quartz watches here, but that isn’t an absolute rule for which there are no exceptions, so today is about a brand of which we are aware but don’t follow, so we missed the… Read More ›
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