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IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XVIII Le Petit Prince (IW3270-04)

love this IWC Pilot watch its so shiny i have gotten so many compliments on this watch thanks victoria

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Review by Melissa Deery, From United States Gonzales

IWC GST Perpetual Calendar Titanium German (IW3756-01)

I was surprised that the bangle is just 7 inches not 8 as advertised. It is not as comfortable as I would have liked if the bangle were longer. Buyer beware!

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Review by Sean p, From Spain Benalmadena Costa Malaga

IWC Small Da Vinci 18kt Yellow Gold Moonphase Green Ladies Watch IW373602

I received this IWC Small Da Vinci 18kt Yellow Gold Moonphase Green Ladies IW373602 watch as a christmas present from my sweetheart last year. I've received so many compliments and it has become a part of my everyday wardrobe. It's lovely and I've enjoyed it for almost a year with no complaints.

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Review by james gibson, From USA Miromar Lakes, Fl 33913

 "In addition to commemorating the 10th anniversary of Revolution, as well as the established partnership and friendship between IWC and Revolution, this auction is closely aligned with our company's social responsibility efforts as all proceeds of sale go to a good cause, benefiting children with needs. The Portugueser Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition '75th Anniversary' features the purist design of the original Portuguese and forges an important link with the origins of this iconic watch family, further augmenting the significance of the collaboration," said Mr Matthieu Dupont, Managing Director of IWC South East Asia.

The unique timepiece is an extremely rare single-watch edition from the Swiss watch manufacturer. It is based on IWC's acclaimed Portuguese Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition '75th Anniversary', which was produced to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Portuguese watch family. This classic design is one of the main reasons that the IWC Portuguese is considered a true icon in the world of watchmaking.

Encased in polished 18-carat red gold, the unique timepiece features a classic black dial with ecru Super-LumiNova® accents. This combination of case material and variant dial sets it apart from all other existing models of the Portuguese Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition '75th Anniversary'. It is equipped with the manual-winding IWC-manufactured 59215 calibre, which is engraved with the words "10th Anniversary Revolution".

The Portuguese Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition "75th Anniversary" Unique Piece for Revolution will be presented for sale in the Sotheby's Hong Kong Important Watches Auction on 6th October 2015. All proceeds from the sale will go towards Smile Asia, an international alliance of charities that provide free surgery to children with facial deformities. Smile Asia is one of the most prominent charities for children in Asia, with programmatic implementation in 13 countries.

Co-founder and Group Editorial Director of Revolution Mr Wei Koh said, "It's an amazing honor for us that IWC has commemorated Revolution's 10th anniversary with this extraordinary Portuguese Hand-Wound Eight Days '75th Anniversary' featuring a one-of-a-kind black dial. I thank my friends Georges Kern, IWC CEO, and Matthieu Dupont, Managing Director of IWC South East Asia for their kindness, support and focus on social responsibility. It is a real pleasure for my business partner Bruce Lee and me that this watch will be sold with 100 percent of its proceeds going to benefit Smile Asia, so that children born with facial deformities will be able to have, as my friend Khing Go, a Smile Asia organizer, explains, 'an equal chance at life'."

The unique timepiece will be presented with a special IWC packaging featuring a commemorative description plate engraved with the words "Tribute to the 10th Anniversary of Revolution".

IWC Schaffhausen celebrates the world of filmmaking for the third year as the Official 'Festival-Time' Partner of the Tribeca Film Festival® in New York. To honor the festival and support its nonprofit affiliate, the Tribeca Film Institute, IWC will auction a unique timepiece and therewith introduces a new complication to the company's watch collection portfolio.
The Portofino Monopusher Edition "Tribeca Film Festival 2015" Unique Piece will be auctioned by Christie's during an online only auction from April 1 to April 10, and the entire proceeds will go to support Tribeca Film Institute.

"For many years now, we have had a passion for cinema. Every filmmaker tells a story with their films, and at IWC, storytelling is in our DNA," says Georges Kern, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen. "Tribeca Film Institute has proved year in and year out to be one of the world's premier charitable organizations when it comes to nurturing and elevating young filmmakers. It is a privilege to be in our third year of our partnership with such a highly regarded institution and a film festival."

The unique timepiece comes onto the scene destined for an award-winning future. The Portofino Monopusher features an ingeniously designed single push-button mechanism, which is integrated in the crown. Pressing the multifunctional pusher twice starts and stops the chronograph. When it is pushed a third time, all the chronograph hands are reset to zero. The chronograph records times of up to 60 minutes.
The movement boasts a power reserve of 8 days (192 hours). The timepiece features a white gold case set against a slate-colored dial, inspired by the streets of Tribeca in New York, with Bordeaux subdials, inspired by Hollywood's red carpet.

The Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition "The Last Flight" in platinum (Ref. IW388005) is a special limited-edition watch produced by IWC Schaffhausen to commemorate Antoine
de Saint-Exupery's last flight 70 years ago.

With the auction of this fine watch, available in an edition of just 17 pieces, IWC Schaffhausen strengthens its long-term commitment to Saint-Exupery's heirs and is donating the entire sum to the charitable Antoine de Saint-Exupery Youth Foundation. The sale, which took place as part of the Important Watches auction held by Sotheby's Geneva on 11 November 2014, raised CHF 40,000, all of which will go to the children's hospital
Pequeno Príncipe in Curitiba, Brazil. "This auction is a part of our company's social responsibility and a reinforcement of the humanist values championed by the famous French
pilot and writer," commented Georges Kern, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen. "In the Antoine de Saint-Exupery Youth Foundation we support an organization that has a huge international network and does an incredible amount for disadvantaged children with its local projects.".

Olivier d'Agay, great-nephew of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Director Saint-Exupery - d'Agay Estate, was delighted by the result of the auction. "The successful bidder can
rest assured that we will put his contribution to the best possible use. Our aim is to provide books, computers and e-books that will motivate severely tested children to discover
reading and culture and encourage them to make constructive use of their free time. It's a way for us to support cultural and educational programmes in the hospital and benefits not only the children receiving treatment but also their siblings and other family members."

In the course of its long-standing partnership with the Antoine de Saint Exupery Youth Foundation, IWC Schaffhausen has joined forces with Sotheby's on several occasions to auctionwatches for good causes. Last year, for example, the proceeds from the auction of a Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition "Le Petit Prince" were put to work in
Cambodia,where two school buildings with their own library now offer an education to 1,200 children.

In 2014, the perpetual calendar with its quick-action switch and large digital display showing the date and month took its place in IWC Schaffhausen's diver's watch family.
The distinctly technical design of the dial is characterized by the extra-large numerals of the perpetual calendar, which is mechanically programmed until 2100. The date and month discs have perforated covers. The designers took their inspiration for this particular element from the filter systems that are omnipresent on submarine vehicles. The four-year leap year cycle is also shown digitally. At IWC, the digital display with large numerals has a tradition dating back over 100 years. A subdial at "12 o'clock" displays stop times between one minute and 12 hours as simply as the time of day, using minute and hour hands, while the central hand counts the number of seconds.

The integrated flyback function enables the user to reset the running stopwatch hands to zero and to start another timing sequence immediately. The display also helps divers monitor the speed of their ascents.

The Super-LumiNova®* coating on the hands and indices glows particularly brightly in the dark in two different colours: green for displays relevant to dive time, blue for the hour display.
 

With its 49mm case - water-resistant to 10 bar - the it is the second-largest wristwatch in IWC's history. The external rotating bezel is made of 18-carat red gold, as is the protective cover on the left side of the case for the advanced sliding clutch system, which transmits the rotation of the external bezel to the internal rotating bezel. The IWC SafeDive system ensures that the bezel can only be turned anticlockwise. The casing ring, push-buttons and crown are made of rubber-coated titanium.

The see-through sapphire-glass back provides a view of the IWC-manufactured 89801 movement, which comprises 474 individual parts.

The black rubber strap with its black alligator leather inlay guarantees maximum comfort in wear and a long service life.

A symbolic depth of 300 metres, or more correctly a water resistance tested to 30 bars of pressure, seems to be a widespread norm for diver's watches. Yet the ISO 6425 standard, by which such diver's watches are homologated, requires only that the watch be water resistant to "at least 100 metres".

Against this benchmark, the watches that we are looking at here are overengineered, in some cases to the extreme. While a professional diver may indeed find himself working at a depth of 300 metres, this represents the limits of mankind's resistance. The deepest recorded dive, by divers of the Comex S.A. industrial deep-sea diving company in 1988, was 534 metres…

500 metres
Despite its water resistance to 500 metres, the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec still resembles a "normal" diver's watch and is even proposed in versions with a case in precious 18-carat rose gold. Its rubber strap (or stainless-steel bracelet with diving lock) and rotating bezel with clear indications single it out as a diver's timepiece, while its 13.45mm thick case, with a 4mm thick sapphire crystal, helps to ensure the extreme water resistance. A helium valve allows the gas to escape during saturation diving. Chronometer-level timekeeping is provided by the CFB 1950.1 self-winding movement, which has a 38-hour power reserve.

The Scafodat 500 by Eberhard & Co. is, as the name suggests, also water resistant to a depth of 500 metres. Its oversize triangular hour markers at the four quarters give it the appearance of a compass and a separate crown at 4 o'clock - also oversize - operates a rotating flange (available with white or red numerals) underneath the 3mm thick sapphire crystal to record dive times. The Scafodat 500 relies on the ETA 2824-2 self-winding calibre for its timekeeping functions and has a stainless-steel bracelet with a patented system for lengthening and a patented folding clasp, or a rubber strap as shown below. An automatic helium escape valve is secreted in the case middle.

1000 metres
Updated in 2012, the latest Sea Hawk models from Girard-Perregaux turn the familiar aesthetic codes of a diver's watch on their head. The crown is shifted to 4 o'clock and enclosed within a protrusion on the case for extra protection; the power reserve indicator is found at 6 o'clock, while the small seconds and date are in the unusual positions of 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock respectively on the "honeycomb" dial.

The 44mm diameter case of the Sea Hawk is 17.1mm thick, guaranteeing water resistance to a depth of 1000 metres. A helium escape valve means that it, too, is suitable used for deep-water saturation diving. Girard-Perregaux's in-house GP03300 self-winding calibre with a 46-hour power reserve drives the watch at 28,800 vibrations per hour.

2000 metres
IWC has built a considerable safety net into its 46mm diameter Aquatimer Automatic 2000, which has a case 20.5mm thick that is water resistant to 200 bar - far beyond anything that a human being can endure. Bearing a resemblance to the brand's Porsche Design for the Ocean 2000 model, the Aquatimer Automatic 2000 is slightly larger yet, thanks to its titanium case, easily wearable. It is powered by the IWC in-house 80110 calibre, which has a 44-hour power reserve, and is fitted with IWC's patented bracelet quick-change system, which allows the rubber strap to be swapped easily for a metal bracelet.

If you're planning to go diving this summer, or perhaps bungee jumping during your holidays… or even if you simply want the feel of a highly resistant timepiece on your wrist, you have plenty of choice.

Nico Rosberg may have made it to the top in motor racing's supreme discipline, but has he got the manual skills it takes to be a watchmaker? And how does a MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team driver, whose main preoccupation is slicing thousandths of a second off his lap times, feel about time in a more general sense? Under the watchful eye of a master watchmaker from IWC Schaffhausen, Nico Rosberg and a group of journalists went straight to the heart of a pocket watch. Dressed in white coats and equipped with loupes and tweezers, they carefully assembled a wheel train, barrel and barrel bridge, and crown wheel. Well versed as he is in technical matters, Rosberg made a good impression at the watchmaker's bench. Concentrated and focused throughout, he finally succeeded in bringing his movement to life.
 

At Home The World Over
The exclusive watchmaking class was held as part of a media day at The Charles Hotel in Munich, where IWC Schaffhausen, Official Engineering Partner of the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team since January 2013, received its brand ambassador Nico Rosberg. Selected journalists were given a deeper insight into the partnership between two companies that have dedicated themselves entirely to precision technology and top-flight engineering. Over lunch, the popular three-time Grand Prix victor provided a first-hand account of his everyday life as a FORMULA ONE driver who is in the spotlight 20 times a year at racing circuits all over the world.
 

High Technology And Craftsmanship
As a young man, Nico Rosberg received an IWC watch from his father and has felt close ties with the luxury watch brand ever since. "For me, IWC watches combine not only complex technology and top-class performance but also passion and emotions," said Rosberg during a podium discussion with IWC CEO Georges Kern, explaining the factors common to watchmaking and motor racing. "It's a great honour for us to have Nico as our brand ambassador," added Georges Kern. "He's an outstanding individual with a dynamic personality, but he also has qualities such as team spirit, a yearning for perfection and progress, all coupled with the desire to give of his very best. These are values we also cherish at IWC Schaffhausen." The cooperation between the Swiss watch manufacturer and MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS is based on a mutual commitment to using their pioneering spirit and expertise to sound out the limits of mechanics. The result of this is the new Ingenieur watch collection from IWC, which, with its technical innovations and the use of materials typically found in motor racing, such as carbon fibre, ceramic and titanium aluminide, typifies the quest of both companies for perfection at the very highest level.

During the Cannes International Film Festival, IWC invited Friends of the Brand and other world-famous celebrities including actors Naomi Watts, Eric Dane and Christoph Waltz, top model Karolina Kurkova, gallery owner Tim Jefferies, musicians John Helliwell and Aloe Blacc and racing driver Lewis Hamilton to an exclusive and glamourous "For the Love of the Cinema" dinner when the IWC Filmmaker Award was presented. The guests were welcomed in the superb Hotel du Cap- Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes.
The coveted IWC Filmmaker Award went to screenwriter Alan Trustman, known for "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Bullitt" and "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"

"Alan Trustman has made his name with intelligent, subtly ironic dialogues and the complexity of his scripts," said Georges Kern. "It's an enormous honour for us to present him with the IWC Filmmaker Award."
In addition to the award, Georges Kern presented an IWC watch to Alan Trustman, whose Portuguese Chronograph Classic (Ref. 3904) is engraved with the words "For the Love of Cinema" on the reverse side in commemoration of his notable achievements.
 

The parrallels between film-making and the art of watchmaking have inspired Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen to sponsor the film industry, for several years now. Summing up the qualities the two disciplines have in common, IWC Ceo Georges Kern said that a film is like a gear train in a watch: countless sequences mesh so that the whole forms a virtuoso performance.
IWC is an official partner of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), a sponsor of the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) and an Official 'Festival-Time' Partner at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The company has also developped friendly relations for many years with important names from the entertainment industry including well-known actors Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Jean Reno and Ewan McGregor, as well as director Marc Forster. IWC watches are regularly featured in Hollywood movies and American TV series. "Technology, innovation, inspiration and attention to detail play as significant a role in watchmaking as in making movies," explained Georges Kern. "We are delighted to express our passion for the world of film with like-minded individuals here in Cannes."

To underline the importance of the region to its business, the Swiss watch manufacturer chose the very heart of Italy's capital, Piazza di Spagna, as home to its first Italian boutique and showcase for its iconic timepieces.

Italy's first IWC boutique has opened its doors at Piazza di Spagna 28, Rome, a prestigious address. Visitors are welcome to discover the fascinating worlds of IWC's distinctive watch families to experience the art of watchmaking and the fascination of haute horlogerie. "Hardly anyone goes to Rome without visiting Piazza di Spagna," says IWC CEO Georges Kern. "We are delighted to present our mechanical masterpieces as well as the company's tradition and philosophy in such a historic and prestigious setting."

Understated Luxury
Located in one of Rome's historic palazzi, the new, 40-square-meter boutique is immersed in natural light from large windows: the perfect setting to display the luxurious timepieces from Schaffhausen. Using dark woods and other materials such as chrome and leather, IWC's inhouse architects have created an elegant atmosphere that reflects both the clear lines of the watches and the heritage that is inseparably linked to the brand.

Innovative Design for Innovative Timepieces
Characterized by a big screen, IWC Schaffhausen's new window display concept uses moving images to illustrate the themed worlds that accompany the individual watch families. Throughout this year, the eye-catching decoration will be dedicated to the relaunched Ingenieur family, now with its sights firmly set on its new partnership with the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One™ Team. Alternating backgrounds recall the performance aspects of race cars and the vintage allure of the Silver Arrow cars. Apart from the comprehensive watch collection, customers will find another major attraction - a range of editions exclusively available in IWC boutiques.

An American and his pioneering spirit brought IWC to Schaffhausen. The Swiss watch manufactory has been setting standards in technological development and highly complicated precision watchmaking since 1868. The "Engineers of fine watchmaking" produce men's watches. Intelligent designs in a timelessly classical style. Timepieces with refined details, which are distinguished by their superb user friendliness.
The dials bear the inscription "IWC Schaffhausen", and many a person may well be astonished to find a watch manufacturer with a worldwide reputation in this idyllic little town on the River Rhine. Geographically remote from the renowned watchmaking centres in Switzerland and with a name that is anything but Swiss, the International Watch Company arouses curiosity about its origins. There was once a young American, Florentine Ariosto Jones, from Boston. A master watchmaker with a good measure of idealism and shrewd business acumen to boot. With his ticket for the Atlantic crossing in his pocket, he also had an intelligent plan in his head. He set out to manufacture extremely accurate pocket watch movements using modern American production machines and, in so doing, brought about a horological revolution in Switzerland, at the time a low-wage economy. Jones established his business in Schaffhausen in 1868 and founded the International Watch Company, a cradle of creative precision watchmaking. In a location not far from the Rhine Falls, the young manufactory utilized the energy of the river for its modern production.
A legacy of pioneering spirit, verve and ambition were instilled into the manufactory by its founder. For the engineers at IWC, pleasure in watches is more than pleasure in the accurate time. It is enthusiasm for an amazing idea. The interplay between precision and a creative solution. Accordingly, for more than 130 years, IWC has been devoting a tick more time to watches. In the horological specialities segment, watch lovers are full of praise for the creative engineering art from Schaffhausen. Grande Complication, Da Vinci and Portuguese are the names of these exclusive timepieces. Pilot's watches, Aquatimer and Portofino are in the traditional watches/timepieces sector. With their sporting/practical design and cases made of stainless steel or titanium, they are the daily companions of active people.
A passion for brilliant inventions, technical refinements and horological milestones are, and always were, the driving force behind the engineers at IWC. The only manufactory in eastern Switzerland caused a sensation in 1885, when it amazed the world with one of the first pocket watches with a digital display. And in the race to produce the first watch to be worn on the wrist, IWC in 1899 was the global leader in the series production of wristwatches. "At home in Schaffhausen - successful throughout the world". With this credo, the geographical outsiders steadfastly maintain their leading position. Special watches which offer solutions to specific problems are and were the favourite challenge of the team at Schaffhausen: Antimagnetic pilot's watches, made legendary through the Mark XI produced for the Royal Air Force, and special timepieces for the Navy, railway companies and scuba-divers earned for IWC the reputation as an innovative ideas powerhouse.
A secret passion for world records appears to be inherent in the genes of the company. The Grande Complication, one of the most intricate mechanical wristwatches in the world, consists of 659 micro components. It is a puzzle so complex that only a very few watchmakers are capable of putting it together.
And a rarity that only a few connoisseurs can call their own. For annual production can never exceed 50 examples. The ingenious perpetual calendar from IWC requires no adjustment other than the replacement of the century slide supplied with the watch. It knows every leap year by heart, except for those in the years 2100, 2200 and 2300. These are not leap years according to the Gregorian calendar, and the watchmaker needs to make a minor adjustment. The IWC tourbillon made of titanium with almost 100 component parts sets a record in lightweight engineering - with a total weight of only 0.296 grams. The Aquatimer Automatic 2000 diver's watch is pressure-resistant down to a depth of 2000 metres, and the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar has an amazing dial, which shows the phases of the moon for both hemispheres.
Not only is the Schaffhausen watch manufacturer an expert in traditional precision watchmaking. It has also always gone its own way in the avant-garde use of high-tech materials. IWC was the first watch manufacturer to develop titanium for watchmaking applications and to apply the resulting know-how to the in-house production of cases. Ever since its foundation, IWC has set itself the task of training for succession to ensure that all this watchmakers' knowledge handed down from generation to generation is passed on. Around 400 employees at the Schaffhausen site and a further 100 located all over the world make certain that the tradition of precision watchmaking is enjoyed by connoisseurs. "Probus Scafusia" promises good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen. This long tradition represents a commitment to the future and, just a little, to eternity.

It devotes itself to sport and the improvement of society through sport. Every year, the very best sportsmen and sportswomen in the world are honoured at the Laureus World Sports Awards. Its work also includes supporting underprivileged young people in over 60 community projects on every continent through the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Every one of those projects utilises sport as the vehicle for social change.
Laureus World Sports Academy
At the heart of Laureus is the Laureus World Sports Academy, a unique association of the greatest sporting legends. The Academy members, who between them account for 100 Olympic medals, about half of them gold, 100 world titles and 200 world records, share a belief in the power of sport to break down barriers, bring people together and to improve the lives of young people around the world.
The Laureus World Sports Academy is the ultimate sports jury, voting each year to decide the winners of the Laureus World Sports Awards and acting as global ambassadors for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, volunteering their time to visit projects in order to draw attention to the problems afflicting society today.
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation supports community projects in places of deprivation throughout the world. Since 2000 the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has funded and promoted initiatives worldwide which use the power of sport to tackle pressing social issues. From the ability to overcome the battle against crime and drugs, to breaking down the barriers of wartorn nations and to regenerate forgotten communities, sport stands alone as a universal language which can be used to educate and to overcome adversity. The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation supports over 60 projects worldwide and since its inception has improved the lives of almost 150,000 children.
Examples of projects include Fight With Insight in Johannesburg, South Africa, a boxing project for young offenders, which aims to channel their aggression into more positive areas. The Magic Bus Sports Programme, in Mumbai, India, which creates "classrooms without walls", and offers sports activities, education, food and healthcare to children who have no choice but to live on the streets, and in some cases those who have been forced into prostitution. In Israel/Palestine, the project Training for Peace, brings young people together through sport from two divided communities.
In Sarajevo, Bosnia, Spirit of Soccer teaches young people to be aware of the risks of 500,000 land mines still remaining in their communities, and in Richmond, Virginia, American teenagers play in a Midnight Basketball League which has helped to tackle drug and crime problems, taking the kids off the street and into the basketball courts. Diverse projects, yet all making a deep impact on their respective communities. Many of the projects are tackling the root of such problems namely drug addiction, poverty, criminality and even AIDS, through sport.
Underprivileged children rub shoulders with the legends of sport
The members of the Laureus World Sports Academy regularly visit Foundation projects, bringing much needed publicity and demonstrating to the participants and their leaders that their work has the backing of their communities and the outside world. The Academy aims to promote all that is positive and worthwhile in sport, and to reinforce the work of all those who stand up for fair play, honest effort and the joy of taking part.
Young people who meet Edwin Moses, Mark Spitz, Bobby Charlton, Martina Navratilova or Boris Becker are left with a b, positive impression. These great sporting legends, who simply want to give something back to society in return for everything that sport has given to them, become great role models for the young people. That is why every Academy member is committed to donating his or her time each year to visit projects. Laureus Academy Chairman Edwin Moses explained: "The Laureus World Sports Awards are a way of drawing the world's attention to what really matters - our work with communities with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. The greatest thing we can do is change lives for the better through sport."
Eight National Laureus Foundations
Laureus thinks globally and acts locally. This strategy means that the global Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is also supported by several National Sport for Good Foundations. The National Sport for Good Foundations are in Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, USA, South Africa, Spain and in Switzerland. Georges Kern, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen, insists that the company bears a social responsibility: "The privileged people on this planet - and we are among them - must do something to help those who are socially, physically or economically disadvantaged. We as a company bear a social responsibility."
Working alongside the Laureus Academy members are also a large number of Laureus Friends and Ambassadors, a group which includes many current world-class sportsmen and sportswomen who are committed to working to help underprivileged young people within their own countries.
The Laureus World Sports Awards
The Laureus World Sports Awards is considered to be the highest international accolade of its kind. The annual selection of the winners covers all sporting disciplines in a variety of categories. With their superb sporting credentials, who could be better qualified to make the annual selection than the Academy members? The Academy members vote by secret ballot for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year, Laureus World Team of the Year, Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year, and Laureus World Comeback of the Year, the nominations for which are made by the Laureus Media Selection Panel, an elite group of the world's most influential sports editors, sports journalists and broadcasters from 125 countries. Academy members also vote for two other categories: Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year respectively Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year and Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability. In addition, the Academy presents, at its discretion, the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laureus Sport for Good Award and the Laureus Spirit of Sport Award.
The Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy is American athletics legend Edwin Moses, the former double Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion, supported by Vice Chaipersons, Tanni Grey-Thompson from the UK, wheelchair racer and 11 time gold medal-winner, and Boris Becker, from Germany, the tennis legend and three-time Wimbledon champion.

Time for social responsibility

Laureus and IWC

Watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has joined forces with Laureus, an organisation that combines sport and social commitment at the very highest level. Every year Laureus presents the Laureus World Sports Awards to the best sportsmen and sportswomen from all over the globe, while the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation uses sport as a means of helping to give children and young people a better future.
The man at the helm of IWC Schaffhausen has no fears for the future of the Swiss watchmaking company. "The IWC brand is more successful today than ever before", says CEO Georges Kern. And now the company is using its strength to empower young people in critical social situations. Since 2005, IWC Schaffhausen has been one of the driving forces behind Laureus, an organisation established in 1999 by two successful international companies, Daimler Chrysler (today Daimler) and Richemont. Daimler represented by its Mercedes-Benz brand, while Richemont, which unites numerous well-known brands in the watch, jewellery and writing instrument industries, selected IWC Schaffhausen as its representative. The watch manufacturer has been making high-quality timepieces since 1868 under the motto "Probus Scafusia", good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen. Sportive watches are one of IWC's most important segments besides horological specialities.
Laureus has two central missions: the first of these is its annual Laureus World Sports Awards, given to the world's most outstanding sports performers; the second is the support offered by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation to projects all over the world which help young people in difficult social conditions to help themselves.
The mission of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation is to utilise the power of sport to address social challenges through a worldwide programme of sports related community development initiatives, using sport as a tool for social change.

Taking responsibility with social commitment
Georges Kern explains the company's motivation to adopt this commitment as follows: "The privileged people on this planet - and we are among them - must do something to help those who are socially, physically or economically disadvantaged." This clearly does not only apply to individuals but also to the economy as a whole. "We as a company bear a social responsibility." And the company carries out these responsibilities not only through the overarching Laureus Global Foundation, but also through a direct commitment with the national Laureus Sport for Good Foundations. This may take the form of additional financial subsidies, support from IWC's local employees and local infrastructure, or from the IWC network in the country in question. In Switzerland, for example, IWC Schaffhausen is playing a particularly important role in the setting up the Swiss branch of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. 
IWC obtained its first experience of social sponsorship through its support of the Cousteau Society, which was founded by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the legendary diver and underwater filmmaker, in 1974, and whose central objective is to preserve the foundations for life in the world's oceans. Another important partnership is the one with the descendants of the famous French pilot and great writer Antoine de Saint Exupery. To support the humanitarian project Vol de Nuit/Vuelo Nocturno of Saint Exupery's greatnephew in Buenos Aires, a unique watch of IWC came up for auction with Christie's New York. IWC donated the proceeds from the sale to that association that looks after the interests of disadvantaged children in Argentina.
Time for social responsibility Laureus and IWC
The top man at IWC explains this engagement as follows: "Today, people expect companies to give them authenticity and to represent genuine values." Solidarity with underprivileged individuals is one of those values. It is the sustainability principle that is becoming increasingly important for society and, ultimately, for potential customers. In the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which helps underprivileged children and adolescents to help themselves, IWC has found the ideal partner for an active form of social commitment. Social sponsorship has been almost de rigueur for successful corporations in the USA for some time now, and the significance of this mix between charity and marketing is becoming increasingly important in Europe. "Do good things and talk about them: that is the motto."
Combining top-level sport with charity
In the case of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, in over 60 projects worldwide almost 150,000 children and adolescents have been helped since its inception and have benefited from the commitment of the two corporations. "The major strength of this Foundation is the combination of charity and sport at the very highest level", says Georges Kern. Ultimately, one of the main supports of the organization is the Laureus World Sports Academy. "This consists of the most important sports personalities in the world", Kern points out - not without pride - adding the rhetorical question, "Where else - apart from Laureus - will you find names like Mark Spitz, Edwin Moses and Boris Becker working together to the same end?" Between them, the Academy members account for over 100 Olympic medals, 100 world championship titles and 200 world records.
If only for this reason, IWC's commitment to Laureus represents a unique chance for the company, explains the CEO. As a manufacturer of top-quality sports watches, IWC Schaffhausen already has a close affinity to sports stars of the past and present. It is undoubtedly a huge honour for the watch manufacturer to work so closely with such successful and irreproachable sports and stars. It is also significant that the Academy is made up of more than 20 different nationalities, as well as a wide range of races, cultures and religious beliefs. Georges Kern sees this as yet another symbol that sport is able to surmount the boundaries between nations, races, cultures and religions. Or, as Nelson Mandela once so succinctly expressed it: "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers."
Underprivileged children rub shoulders with sport's big stars
Academy members were already close to their public while still active. Today, they maintain this closeness by regularly visiting projects organised by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. By doing so, they give the projects public significance and at the same time indicate to the children and adolescents involved - who are usually disadvantaged - that they are being taken seriously by society. At the same time, these encounters with the stars leave a lasting, positive impression on the young people. Any youngster who has had a chance to run against Edwin Moses, play tennis with Boris Becker or kick a football with Bobby Charlton is not going to forget it in a hurry.
In the short time that IWC Schaffhausen has been involved with Laureus, Georges Kern has spoken to many of the Academy members. And he hears the same sentiment repeated time and time again - "I'd like to give back something for everything that sport has given me." This explains why the Laureus sporting legends are prepared to donate their time to travel around the world each year doing what they can to support the various projects.
The book "Let the Children Play"
IWC Schaffhausen has conceived and produced a unique book called "Let the Children Play" in collaboration with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which outlines the work of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. The high quality coffee table book with powerful iconic photographic images and on-the-ground reports will generate greater awareness of the mission of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which uses sport as a vehicle for social change in deprived communities.
Facts on the book
"Let the Children Play", is a hard cover coffee table book, published by IWC in English and contains 276 pages. The book can be ordered over the internet at www.iwc.com or www.laureus.com It is non-profit making and part of the proceeds will go towards the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

GMT - Printemps-ete 2011

It was in 1984 that IWC launched its Portofino collection which was immediately characterised by its vocation for bridging the cap between the world of pocket-watches and that of wristwatches. The first model in the collection was indeed driven by a pocket-watch movement from the Manufacture in Schaffhausen. At the time, a large men's watch rarely measured more than 41 to 42 mm in diameter, so the Portofino began counting time in a 46 mm case well before the emergence of oversized models. This new testing bench will demonstrate the legitimacy of the technical choices made by the IWC technicians whom one definitely cannot accuse of having succumbed to a mere fashion trend.
This year IWC has made a point of re-energising this collection which was unanimously well received by specialists. Let's take an objective look for ourselves at the flagship of this fleet: the Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days (ref. 5101).

The exterior
Since its launch in 1984, the collection has undergone only slight cosmetic changes and remains an ultra-classical looking timepiece. This new model measures 45 mm in diameter and 12 mm thick - a ratio representing virtually perfect proportions. The model entrusted to us by IWC was in red gold. This metal has been harmoniously associated with the anthracite colour of the dial revealing absolute aesthetic beauty. Ten bevelled and mirror-polished baton-type appliques surround a Roman 12 o'clock numeral, while the date appears in its traditional place at 3 o'clock and the generous seconds subdial is off set at 6 o'clock. The masterfully understated dates appear in white numerals painted against the anthracite dial backdrop. Nor should one neglect to mention the alligator leather strap crafted by the famous Italian shoe designer Santoni. Its characteristic patina and the quality of its workmanship was spontaneously saluted at each "wearing" test, and is admirably complemented by the disarmingly simple yet appealing design of the pin buckle, which certainly deserves a closer look. So too does the round sapphire crystal that might appear commonplace at first glance, but IWC makes round sapphire crystals that embody truly magnificent accomplishments in terms of their proportions, aesthetics and technology.

The movement
Hand-wound Calibre 59210 is endowed with an eight-day power reserve. Although it is the size of a pocket-watch, this movement stems from a development process specifically designed for a wristwatch. It represents the beating heart of a horological wonderland, for its naturally impressive diameter is ably matched by the natural yet refined manner in which it occupies the available space. A huge mainplate and extremely large bridges share the broad surface with centrings and shapes that could be textbook examples for a Watchmaking School and are nonetheless amazingly contemporary. The generous barrel occupies one-fifth of the mainplate. It supplies the going train right up to the seconds which has its own fixed bridge magnificently recessed into the gear-train bridge. The guided tour continues with an admiring glance at the escapement bridge, before contemplating the balance-cock and its illustrious associates, the balance-and-spring assembly - which seem astonishingly small and will be dealt with under the "Tests" heading of this article. One also soon notices the plate of the balancespring stud-holder, and thus that the stud itself is mobile, and also index-free. The balance-spring actually ends with a "classic" Breguet overcoil or terminal curve ensuring acknowledged advantages in terms of isochronism.
The balance beats at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations, which is impressive considering that the eight days of energy are supplied by a single barrel. And speaking of the eight days, the figure implies eight days of guaranteed running and above all of correct rating. After eight days, the barrel would still have a considerable level of autonomy, but IWC's well-known stopping device brings the movement to a halt. Its running is thus deliberately interrupted before the rating deteriorates as the final driving-force resources are nearing depletion. Classicism and efficiency are twin qualities pervading the entire watch, including in the decoration featuring linear Côtes de Geneve (running from 12 to 6 o'clock), the bevelling on the bridges and the finishing of the steel parts and screws. While connoisseurs have come to expect excellence from IWC, it is delightful to nonetheless be surprised by such eloquent demonstrations of its art.

Tests
Curious to see what the small balance held in store, we began the procedures by timing tests. Amplitudes and rates were measured in six positions at 0, 24 hours and on the last day of the power reserve, thus also providing an opportunity to check whether the stoppage after eight days is justified. Out of a concern for credibility, I must admit that the spring was perhaps slightly overwound when the measurements were taken at 0 hours. A mean amplitude of 287° with a 46° delta was nonetheless measured, along with a mean rate of 1.1 sec/day with a 4-second delta. After 24 hours, the mean amplitude was 299° with the same delta as at 0 hours, and the mean rate was 1.6/ day with a delta down to 3.8 sec. On the last day, the mean amplitude was down 18° with a 52° delta but… the rate was 1.3 sec./day with a 3.9 sec. delta!
When actually worn on the wrist, this "5101" procedure elicits even greater delight. This watch appears to be capable of constant role changes. In turn discreet, eye-catching, elegant and trendy, it could even be considered sporty if one were to adopt a British view of sport. The readability and functions are ideal for a timepiece in this category, and as for comfort, the wearer can easily end up forgetting all about this watch despite a distinct tendency to stare at it constantly !

By way of conclusion
The enthusiasm sensed during the ten days shared with the Portofino Eight Days is on a par with the technical and aesthetic accomplishment represented by this splendid watch. Creating a successful design for a classic watch is doubtless one of the most difficult horological exercises. That of the 5101 guarantees that it will cross the decades while making light of passing fashions and relying fi rmly on what the author can only describe as the ultimate benchmark of reliability.

Taking place on April 29th 2010, this 2nd Forum de la Haute Horlogerie, whose theme is Time to Rethink, is a day to reflect on the values of Fine Watchmaking that must help the profession bounce back. A unique opportunity to consider the very particular world of luxury.

During the first quarter 2010, the Swiss watch branch returned to growth with exports increasing by 16.6%. Not that this upturn should mask events of the past eighteen months, when the branch suffered the equivalent of fallout from Eyjafjallajokull, with waiting customers and watches unable to take off. After five years of unhoped-for success, this "break in transmission", though long, now brings an opportunity to reflect on the elements that make Fine Watchmaking an exceptional activity, the means to secure its future, and the foundations for a new beginning.
When organising its second Forum de la Haute Horlogerie, to be held on April 29th 2010 and reserved for the exclusive circle of brand CEOs, the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie therefore chose a theme that is close to present-day preoccupations. Time to Rethink - the subject of this day of reflection - illustrates the need to ask difficult questions, and debate the future of a profession that must emerge ber from the strategic twelve months of 2009. Strategic in the strictest sense, as this is about coordinating and planning actions to defend shared values.
By welcoming personalities from many different horizons, the Forum must also be an opportunity to take a detached view of the very particular world of luxury. Speakers include the former President of France, Valery Giscard D'Estaing, Vincent Bastien, assistant professor at HEC Paris, Remy Bersier, member of the Bank Julius Baer Executive Board, the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, the British writer and journalist Nick Foulkes, the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani and venture capitalist Frank Vivier. Taking the floor for the watch sector itself are Henry-John Belmont (Expert), Jean-Claude Biver (CEO Hublot), Patrick Frischknecht (CEO Les Ambassadeurs), François-Paul Journe (CEO F.P. Journe Invenit et Fecit), Georges Kern (CEO IWC), Thomas Mao (creator of ThePuristS.com) and Laurent Picciotto (founder of Chronopassion in Paris).
Last year, Swiss watchmaking returned to levels that were globally those of 2006. Have the past three years been lost or will they, on the contrary, contribute to a better understanding of the future of Fine Watchmaking? Time to Rethink, a rare moment for the watch branch, will endeavour to provide concrete answers.

One of watchmaking's genuine legends of the last century from IWC Schaffhausen is now back in a new guise: the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph introduces a sportingly elegant note into the Portuguese family for the first time, with an IWC-manufactured chronograph movement and technical features that are quite impressive.
Times change. And so do boats, to invoke a maritime image: if the model under the Yacht Club name - the most successful IWC of the 1960s and 70s - was a sturdy craft on the river of time, then the new Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph has rather more of an elegant racing yacht about it. And, as we know, the demands placed on the equipment are nowhere so high as when navigating on the high seas.
The legendary name of this unpretentious watch with its automatic winding system and its movement spring-mounted in the case is back. And yet the Yacht Club for the third millennium does not mimic the past in any way. This is clear from a first glimpse of the new Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph.
This new creation - a chronograph with the wellestablished IWC-manufactured 89360-calibre movement - is an elegant sports watch and embodies the best technical ingredients. This makes it a reliable timepiece whose functionality is beyond reproach and in which every detail, however minor, has been optimized. Not least, it is also a nautical precision instrument, because it will not let its owner down, even when sailing in rough seas.
The Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph is the most sporting watch in the rich tradition of its family history that goes back more than seventy years, and as such it is water-resistant to 6 bar and is equipped with a screw-in crown and a crown protection. Its chronograph permits the recording of aggregate times of up to twelve hours on the common counter for the minutes and hours and can be reset to zero via the flyback function at any time while running, so that it is instantly ready to start measuring a new time. There are many ways of measuring long stop times. Yet none are as convenient and unambiguous as those provided by the analogue display of the 89360 calibre: these can be read like a normal time display. In addition, the movement with its integral chronograph is designed in such a way that the measurement of even long stop times does not lead to fluctuations in amplitude and associated inaccuracy. The signal red centre stopwatch hand in effect also plays a central role. Together with the supplementary flange for seconds and fractions of a second, it allows extremely accurate short-interval timing.
In terms of functionality, the dial appeals with its clear railway track-style chapter ring and - for the first time in the Portuguese family - with luminescent indices and hands. It also incorporates date and small seconds displays. In spite of its sporting characteristics, the new Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph represents a Portuguese that is true to type with its consummately neat dial and Arabic numerals.

The Yacht Club is reporting back for duty in a remarkable way after an absence of around a quarter of a century. It is available as the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph in three variants: in steel with a silver-plated dial, rhodium-plated luminescent hands and appliques. Again in steel with a black dial, silver-plated flange and rhodium- plated hands and appliques, also luminescent. The most refined model in 18 carat red gold has an slate-coloured dial with a sun pattern ground finish, subtly contrasted by the black small seconds display circle and the black ring for the aggregate minutes of the chronograph. This model is distinguished additionally by gold-plated hands and solid red gold appliques.
All three variants are worn on a black rubber strap with a folding clasp. And during those hours of total calm on board, far out to sea, a glance through the sapphire-glass back at the IWC-manufactured movement with IWC's double-pawl winding even brings the yachtsman a little distraction…

The manufacturer has treated the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, its specialist for long calendar periods, to a gentle facelift and an extension to the model range: two new variants in red gold and two in white gold increase the variety of models on offer. Technically, there was nothing left to improve. This time machine with its perpetual calendar stands for sheer perfection.
It is the Portuguese watch which one might easily have imagined on the wrist of famous seafarers. Learned individuals with the necessary far-sightedness, spirit of discovery and a concrete vision of the future. Because the future is precisely the area of expertise of this particular time machine, which is as beguiling as it is technically impressive. The perpetual calendar, invented 25 years ago, lives on here in all its original complexity and genius - in conjunction with an IWC-manufactured large movement from the 50000-calibre family with a seven-day power reserve.
This is an ideal combination for a complicated watch with calendar indications displaying the date, day, month, year in four digits and perpetual moon phase. The watch displays advance completely autonomously, mechanically programmed and synchronized with one another. Save for a leap day correction that becomes necessary in February 2100, this continues uninterrupted and without any intervention on the part of the wearer, who simply needs to input the required kinetic energy via the highly efficient Pellaton winding system of the automatic movement when wearing the watch. According to the complicated Gregorian calendar, which always assures years of almost constant length, the leap day that would be due to occur is absent at the end of February in the year in question, 2100, and this will necessitate an adjustment by a watchmaker. It might thus be appropriate to ensure that one's grandson or great-grandson is aware of this fact. In that faroff year, incidentally, the century slide at the end of a long transmission chain will also be advanced by a couple of millimetres, and the numeral "21" for the next hundred years set in the display window in place of the currently indicated "20" to make the year display complete.

The beguiling new eternity in the form of the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar retains its two familiar faces: one model of this watch is equipped with a quasi-universal hemisphere lunar display (Ref. 5021), in which the miniature model of the Earth's satellite is pictured twice. Exactly as the phases of the moon appear when viewed from the northern or southern hemisphere - that is to say reversed. This distinctive optical feature has to do with the visual angle and the different point of observation. The number of days remaining until the next full moon can also be read precisely on a supplementary countdown scale in this model. The new Portuguese Perpetual Calendar in 18 carat red gold with hemisphere lunar display (Ref. 5021) differs from the previous rose gold model through the rather warmer hue of the case material. The second new model, the white gold variant with a midnight blue dial and silver-plated highlights, for example for the seconds subdial or on the moon disc, presents a particularly attractive side as regards colour. The simultaneous display of the two moons functions as follows: it is not the moon disc itself that moves, but an engraved disc representing the globe with two circular cut-outs set against a silver-coloured background, which carries two blue circular surfaces in a horizontal plane. In this way, the moon in the southern hemisphere is shown mirror-inverted or laterally reversed in relation to the moon in the northern hemisphere.
A second version of the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar is available with the classic cut-out moon phase display when observed from the northern hemisphere (Ref. 5023). The Earth's satellite waxes onto this miniature stage from the left behind the semicircular setting becomes visible in the middle as a full moon and wanes on the right side behind the second semicircle. It is accompanied on the moon disc by small raised stars. The two new models with the representation of the moon behind a setting are now also housed in the 44.2-millimetre case of their sibling models (Ref. 5021). These are the variant in 18 carat red gold with a silver-plated dial, solid red gold appliques and a red goldplated moon surrounded by small stars, and a highly discreet model in 18 carat white gold with rhodium-plated appliques and a slate-coloured dial.
As far as the key astronomical indication of the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, the moon, is concerned, it is able to match the precision of scientific instruments: in these watch models - and in these alone - the gearing has been modified, thanks to the available space, so as to permit the moon cycle to be displayed with unprecedented accuracy. A tiny residual error of 12 seconds per lunar period (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds) will add up to a deviation of just one day after 577 years. In other words: only the moon in the heavens is more accurate according to our current state of knowledge. And then only by a small margin.

Swiss watchmaker, IWC Schaffhausen celebrated their partnership and commitment to the Charles Darwin Foundation through an exclusive exhibition of renowned photographer, Michael Muller's pictures from the Galapagos at Milk Studios on Wednesday, November 11th. Muller shares the same beliefs as IWC and the event on November 11th will not only honor him for his incredible talent, but also bring to light the need for continued support of the Galapagos Islands.
Celebrity supporters in attendance included: Jason Bateman, Justin Bartha, Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, Alex O' Loughlin, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, James Van Der Beek, Harry Morton, Michael Muller, Jenni Kayne, Shiva Rose, Rosetta Getty & Larry King and many more.

During the event, guests had the opportunity to see breathtaking images, as well as a chance to win one of the new IWC Aquatimer watches in an exclusive raffle. In addition, each individual was handed a mystery key at the entrance- this key provides the chance to win an exclusive IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Edition Galapagos at the IWC Beverly Hills boutique.

IWC Schaffhausen has maintained its resolute approach to the environment by committing itself to the Galapagos Islands. The partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation marks the beginning of a collaboration geared to the long term and aimed at protecting one of the most fascinating nature resources on the planet: the Galapagos Islands with their abundance of species and a unique and highly vulnerable ecosystem that is threatened in many ways.

The Swiss watch manufacturer is supporting the non-profit Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) in its projects. IWC, as the manufacturer of extraordinary watches which stand for lasting values, takes its commitment to sustainability very seriously as a certified CO2-neutral enterprise. The company is setting a further example with this collaboration. Far-reaching measures are called for in order to ensure that this unique ecosystem, one of the last few well conserved tropical archipelagos in the world and classified as endangered by UNESCO in 2007, does not founder in ecological terms.
Additional sponsors included Continuum wine from Carlo Mondavi, Milk Studios Meridian Audio and M Cafe de Chaya.
IWC Schaffhausen
IWC Schaffhausen has been setting standards in technological development and highly complicated Haute Horlogerie for more than a century. The International Watch Company, founded in 1868, has established a world reputation for itself as a Swiss watch manufactory with a long heritage and a passion for ingenious inventions, innovative solutions and technical refinements.

Charles Darwin Foundation
The Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) carries out scientific research and complementary actions with collaboration from local, national and international partners to conserve Galapagos. Established in 1959 under the auspices of UNESCO as an advisor to the Government of Ecuador, CDF continues to be the only conservation research organization dedicated specifically to Galapagos.

Michael Muller
Over the past two decades, photographer Michael Muller's images have regularly landed on the pages of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Interview, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Flaunt, and Time. A tireless chronicler of popular culture, Muller captures his subjects with a contagious mixture of spontaneity and formal grace. Be it action-sports, rock and roll, a Hollywood icon, great white sharks, outlaw motorcyclists, strippers, hot rod culture or even, say, five dollar a shot super heroes in front of The Chinese Theater, Muller has shown, time and again, by employing whatever visual strategies necessary, he can vividly convey the deeper truths inherent in a single, fleeting moment. Michael's unique; signature style speaks for itself. His passion for the art and commerce of photography can easily be felt by simply looking at his pictures.