It takes a while before the SIHH, but IWC has announced a significant expansion of their collection of pilot's watches already. Three new watches will join the line-up, which includes some interesting innovations.
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph IWC has that summer feeling and decided to share this with the world with a new version of the Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph. With a deep blue dial and white subdials and the outer ring is this watch the embodiment of summer, with the red
SIHH 2018 brings 35 exhibitors. On the first day of a week full of innovation and surprises from the world of Fine Watchmaking we love to share a few of our favourite highlights.
The well known American approach to super size almost everything is not applicable to the size of IWC's watches nowadays. But the in 1868 by Florentine Ariosto Jones founded International Watch Company, founded in 1868 by Florentine Ariosto Jones, is certainly celebrating it's 150 anniversary!
On Saturday evening, the 11th Laureus Charity Night was held at Dübendorf Hangar near Zurich. Approximately 700 guests – including numerous celebrities from the worlds of sport, business, politics and society – raised a total of almost CHF 3,000,000 for charitable sports projects run by the Laureus Foundation Switzerland.
IWC Schaffhausen presents two of its most popular Portugieser models in fashionable blue: for the first time, the Swiss watchmaking company is launching the Portugieser Automatic and the Portugieser Chronograph with a stainless-steel case and blue dial.
IWC Schaffhausen strengthens its customer service in North America and opens the first boutique in Canada. The new boutique is located in Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping center in the immediate vicinity to other major global luxury brands.
IWC CEO Christoph Grainger-Herr and AMG CEO Tobias Moers
Ingenieur Chronograph Sport Edition "50th Anniversary of Mercedes AMG"
Ingenieur Chronograph Sport Edition "50th Anniversary of Mercedes AMG"
Edoardo Mortara (L-R), Edward Sandstroem, Maximilian Buhk and Dominik Baumann
IWC CEO Christoph Grainger-Herr and AMG CEO Tobias Moers
Mercedes-AMG is turning 50. The performance sports car brand from Mercedes-Benz has been synonymous with outstanding engine expertise, automotive performance and a dynamic driving experience for half a century now. IWC Schaffhausen is celebrating its partner’s anniversary with a special limited edition from the Ingenieur family.
A tobacco brown dial and a brown calfskin strap with decorative white stitching: these are the most important distinguishing features of the special editions developed by IWC Schaffhausen to honour the French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Now, two classics from the Pilot’s Watch family are available in the
IWC is now reissuing the Portugieser Chronograph Classic (Ref. 3903) with a slightly revised and updated design. The dial with the typical Portugieser railway-trackstyle chapter ring looks even neater than its predecessor without the subdivision of the seconds, while the watch as a whole has a more modern impact thanks to the convex sapphire glass.
Yours truly was quite taken with the Da Vinci models which were presented in scenic Firenze. Not only because it has the round lines of the very first model from 1985. But also because the new Da Vinci line offers one especially good-looking Perpetual Calendar Chronograph model. A complication made by the master watchmaker Kurt Klaus in midst of severe horological crisis.