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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
In 2018 IWC announced a number of pieces in partnership with the U.S. Navy’s Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (SFTI) that were formally launched at the SIHH 2019. The collection also saw the first appearance of Ceratanium® in their Pilot’s… Read More ›
This year’s inaugural Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 went digital, and the releases are still filtering down to worldwide markets, but the W&W-branded expansion continues, with the announcement of their first event in Shanghai. Remembering, of course, that there were… Read More ›
Last year as a part of their new Pilot pieces IWC revamped their Spitfire range, put in some new in-house movements, and included a series of bronze cases for the first time. At the top end of these new pieces was… Read More ›
