The 2019 collection by IWC includes the Spitfire Automatic, which presents some significant differences with respect to its predecessor, the Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII (still in production). The most important feature is that it has an in-house movement, Calibre 32110, instead of the ETA 2892-A2. This has been achieved with only a small increase in…
IWC’s new pilot’s watches include this Automatic, one of the purest pilot’s watches made by IWC in recent years. It is very close to the Mark 11 watches supplied to the RAF in the late 1940s. The major differences are the presence of a date window, different dial markings, and above all the introduction of…
The IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition “150 Years” is a beautiful, minimalist watch. I particularly like the way the date window is camouflaged, almost part of the circuit of hour numerals. It’s satisfyingly large at 43.2 mm diameter and relatively slim at 12.2 mm thickness. The white lacquer dial highlights the blued hands and…
As part of the celebrations for the brand’s 150th anniversary, IWC have done something rather unusual. They have given the classic pilots watch a big date display. Pilots watch purists probably won’t like this. A pilot’s watch should have just hour and minute hands, a central second-hand, Arabic numerals and virtually nothing else on the…
IWC Schaffhausen is celebrating its 150th anniversary with this interesting watch, IWC Tribute to Pallweber, based on pieces in their historic collection. In addition to three wristwatch variants, it is also available as a pocket watch. They are all limited editions. Both the new Tribute to Pallweber and the original pocket watches that were made…
The new 2017 edition of the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Annual Calendar reference IW502706 is very similar to the 2016 edition dedicated to Le Petit Prince, except that the dial is now tobacco brown, there is an A for Antoine on the dial, and the oscillating weight is in the shape of Antoine de Saint…
With their large conical crown, classic dial design and riveted leather strap, these two new Big Pilot’s watches by IWC have an authentic look, close to the original 1940s IWC pilot’s watch, reference 431 (scroll down for photo). The IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Heritage is in two versions, IW501004 with a titanium case, and IW501005…
IWC has presented three new pilot’s watches that will be available from November 2017. The most accessible is the Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII, in a titanium case for the first time. In design, it is very close to IWC’s 1940 Big Pilot’s Watch, the legendary reference 431 (scroll down for photo) that was 55 mm…
The new IWC Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month is a spectacular perpetual calendar chronograph. One of the four new Ingenieur watches introduced in September 2017, like the other three it has elements from the very first Ingenieur, model 666A introduced in 1955, such as the circular case, simple dial and the layout of hour markers…
The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Sport Edition “50th Anniversary of Mercedes-AMG” (reference IW380902) is a 250-piece limited edition marking the 50th anniversary of the Mercedes-Benz sports car brand. IWC has partnered AMG-Mercedes since 2004. The watch is in a familiar IWC pattern, with a few distinctive details such as the continuous seconds hand shaped like a…
IWC has extended its range of pilot’s watches in the Saint Exupéry series with three new models, including this Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII. Like all IWC Saint Exupéry pieces, it has a chocolate brown dial and a brown calfskin strap by Santoni, with orange lining and white stitching. All in all, a hyggelig combination. The…
The IWC Portugieser Chronograph Classic, reference 3903, is exactly that, a classic. The Portugieser Chronograph has been in IWC’s collection from 1996, when it was the Portuguese Rattrapante; the Portuguese Chronograph was introduced in 1998. From the start, it had Arabic numerals and vertically-arranged subdials. In 2013, the watch acquired the combined minutes and hour…
The Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph is the highest-priced watch in the new Da Vinci collection by IWC, and it includes three complications: tourbillon, chronograph and retrograde date. It is powered by the new in-house 89900 calibre, self-winding, running at 28,800 vibrations per hour, 4 Hertz. It has some significant technical features. Advanced materials in the 89900…
IWC extends its collection of watches for women with three Da Vinci Automatic Moon Phase 36 models, all of which share the fundamental characteristics of the new Da Vinci range – mobile lugs for easy wearability whatever the wrist size, domed crown, recessed circle on the dial, Santoni strap – along with the moon phase…
It was no easy task for the designers at IWC. After the Portofino Midsize 37mm collection in 2015, the first time for about 20 years that IWC had directly approached women’s watches, and a few 36mm pilot’s watches last year, Da Vinci includes two series of 36mm watches designed specifically for women, the Da Vinci…
The 2016 pilot’s watches by IWC Schaffhausen included some small 36 mm pieces that seemed to reflect an interest in the genre on the part of women. Three of the 3240 references, IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36, have been withdrawn from the catalogue: IW324003, the watch with blue dial markings and blue alligator strap that…
This, the IWC Big Pilot’s Heritage Watch 48 IW510301, is the closest that IWC has come to a re-edition of its classic 1940 pilot’s watch 52-Calibre T.S.C. The Heritage Watch is 48 mm in diameter, compared to the 55 mm of the 1940s 52-Calibre T.S.C. and the new Heritage Watch 55. Its size and appearance…
The IW503801 by IWC is the Antoine de Saint Exupéry version of the Perpetual Calendar Top Gun IW502902 watch, with the differences being the tobacco brown dial, the display caseback, the Santoni strap with cream contrasting stitching and orange lining, and the calibre. The movement is the in-house 52610, visible through the sapphire caseback. This…
This watch by IWC Schaffhausen is almost identical to the previous 2012 version, the only difference being the embossed calfskin strap instead of the soft black textile strap. The ceramic case is 48 mm in diameter and 16 mm thick, solid caseback with Top Gun logo, and 6 bar water resistance. The dial is very…
The IW500917 is the luxury version of the Big Pilot’s Watch IW500912, IWC’s interpretation of the Type A B-Uhr watch. The 46mm case is in red gold, and likewise hands, conical crown and back. The watch is powered by the in-house 51111 calibre, running at 21,600 vibrations per hour, 3 Hertz. Power reserve is over…