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 ›
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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 ›
NEW: IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Edition “SFTI”
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 ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Shanghai 2020
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 ›
HANDS-ON: IWC Big Pilot Big Date Spitfire “Mission Accomplished”
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 ›
NEW: IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph
Along with the simplicity of the new Portugieser Automatic launched by IWC this ‘year of the Port’, at the other end of the spectrum is a multi-complication – the new Portugieser Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph. This is along a similar thematic… Read More ›
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