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IWC Pilot's Watch Spitfire Chrono-Automatic (IW3717-02)

Great watch, design is a discontinued model but very stylish. The IWC Pilot are the only ones I buy.

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Review by Diwaniyah, From Unite States Orange Texas

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

IWC Portuguese Perpetual Calendar Blue Dial 18kt White Gold Black Leather Men's Watch IW503203

I've owned this watch for two days now and I've enjoyed it very much. The picture does not do it justice. This is my first IWC and I'm sure I'm going to buy another.

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Review by Brad Briner, From Spain Granada

70 years ago, Antoine de Saint-Exupery took off from a military base in Corsica on a Lockheed P-38 Lightning for a reconnaissance flight over France, which never returned. The inquiry to know the reasons of his disappearance only stopped in 1998 when a fisherman found Antoine de Saint-Exupery's bracelet in his nets. The watch manufacture in Schaffhausen celebrated the last flight of the famous pilot and writer through three limited special editions featuring ceramic silicon nitride cases: the is available in titanium, red gold or platinum.

A tradition of commitment to social causes
Sotheby's Geneva will auction one of the platinum models, in November. IWC will donate the entire proceeds to the Antoine de Saint-Exupery Youth Foundation, which champions the great Frenchman's humanitarian philosophy and is involved in projects aimed at improving literacy among children and young people across the world. On this occasion, the money is destined for the Hospital Pequeno Principe in Curitiba. Brazil's largest children's hospital is a respected centre specializing in highly complex heart operations, organ and bone transplants. The funds that will be collected will provide the hospital's recreational area will soon have a library to offer its young patients.

Helping young people to help themselves
"Our sense of social responsibility reflects what happens in our own company", explains Georges Kern. IWC Schaffhausen, well known for its almost 80 years' experience in the manufacture of Pilot's Watches, decided to pursue a partnership with Antoine de Saint-Exupery's descendants due to their many shared values. They both share a passion for flying, technology and engineering, and have a pronounced sense of social responsibility.

A watch to commemorate the final flight
Usually, special editions dedicated to the legendary pilot are in tobacco colour. For new models of the , the brand has adapted a brown ceramic case made from silicon nitride, a brown dial with a calfskin strap in the same colour. The rugged case, made of high-performance ceramic silicon nitride, has several outstanding properties such as enormousheat resistance, unusual hardness, corrosion resistance and very low wear and tear. The sapphire glass has an antireflective
coating on both sides and is secured against drops in air pressure, while the case is water-resistant to 6 bar. Developed and manufactured by IWC entirely in Schaffhausen, the 89361 calibre is a technical masterpiece. Stop times up to 12 hours are clearly displayed on an analogue hour and minute counter on a subdial. The back of the watch is engraved with a special image which commemorates the 70th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's last flight. The timepiece itself is packaged in a leather case embossed with the same motif as the exquisite engraving on the case back, and is accompanied by a rotor-shaped letter opener in stainless steel.

I have great trouble explaining Baselworld to anyone who's not been. Seriously - is it possible to understand even remotely the galactic scale and Faustian ambition of Hall 1.0 without actually seeing it?
And what of the transient decadence of the pavilions (the word 'stands' is now etymologically insufficient for some brands, I gather)? How do you justify the cost of these things against the time they're actually of any use?
Or the people - oh, so many extraordinary people. Drawn from all corners of the globe as if answering the Siren's call, they are a perfect study in the peculiar diversity of the luxury world.
And how exactly does one insert into this inadequate explanation the preponderance of pushchairs? Yes, pushchairs - incongruous, incorrigible and infuriating, they trundle into the path of whirling wordies with inevitable frequency. Do they not know we have hopelessly ambitious appointment schedules to keep?
 

There is, I have concluded, little a dull-eyed Baselworld graduate can do to convey its majesty and its madness.
By contrast, what I can allude to with considerably more lucidity is the nature of the wristwatch that accompanied me on my annual Baselworld pilgrimage this year.
Rather like the fellow at school who always wore non-regulation shoes, I went off message and travelled with one of my picks from this year's SIHH strapped to my ulna - the IWC Ingenieur Automatic (black dial, for the record).
I've liked this watch ever since I first laid eyes on it, and judging by the reactions I got as it peeked out from under my cuff at the fair, I'm far from alone. The consensus among those prepared to offer a view - which, given this profession attracts the firm of mind, was most - was that it was the standout piece in IWC's line-up this year.
There was a caveat to the appraisals, mind. Its superiority, so went the rationale, owed as much to the aesthetic paucity of the other nine pieces in the revamped Ingenieur line, as to its own excellence.
Which will be an uncomfortable sentiment for IWC. While I don't agree with it entirely - I had the black-dialled version of the Double Chronograph Titanium on my wrist for a few days earlier this year and found little wrong with it - I'm happy to argue the case that IWC tried to do too much with the Ingenieur reboot. It felt overthought and overwrought.
 

No little irony then, that the one thing they didn't do was make all the new pieces antimagnetic - that quality has been attributed only to the Automatic. Which was perplexing. The Ingenieur is one of the great antimagnetic watches of the last 60 years, but without its original trick it feels like a Land Rover without four-wheel drive. It stops making sense.
On top of that, it's a missed opportunity. Anti-magnetism is big this year and I'll happily nail my colours to the mast and say technical developments made in this area will prove to be the most significant over the course of this decade - just as the use of silicon was in the last. IWC could and should have shared in the antimagnetic spoils this year - and probably will further down the line - given it's a brand that rightly prides itself on its engineering creds.
But enough of that. Because what I really wanted to say is how good the Automatic is. As well as being antimagnetic, its proportions are nigh on perfect (on my wrists, an extra millimeter on the 40 would have been handy - but I'm nitpicking); its bracelet is a lesson in ergonomics and very simple to adjust; and because it's a faithful restyling of the late, great Gerald Genta's 1976 IWC Ingenieur SL, its kudos is guaranteed.
I'd suspected as much beforehand, but Baselworld confirmed it - the IWC Ingenieur Automatic is one of this year's standout watches.

WORLDTEMPUS - 17 March 2010

When IWC invited the established watch press to Schaffhausen yesterday to introduce a new book, few of the guests were really prepared for what it was they were about to be introduced to; watch company catalogues are after all a dime a dozen.

Knowing Georges Kern's penchant for prominent artists, however, it might have been clear that this would be no ordinary project. In fact, it is probably safe to say there has never been anything like this before in the watch world. At the launch event staged at the manufactory located on the Rhine, Kern explained that the objective was to try to get a broader audience interested and educated. Thus, three years ago Kern and Manfred Fritz, IWC's "house journalist," a German newspaperman responsible for much of the company's founded written communiques, embarked upon a project that would end up being a "book in book" concept featuring six fictional short stories on the subject of time by the Brazilian bestselling author and illustrations by the Parisian cartoonist.

Coelho explained in his emotional way that he first said no to the book project when approached in 2007. However, the more he thought about it, the more the stories on the subject of time began to formulate in his head and he ended up agreeing. "I write my books out of passion, and this is the first for me based on this subject," he explained.
The three men collaborated on the book from a distance and without meeting for most of the three years it took to complete. Fritz's portion of the book constitutes a narrative history from a journalist's point of view, and he describes it as something "that should be fun to read."

Some of the six short stories that Coelho created for his fictional portion of the project are available as podcasts, otherwise fans will have to wait until the end of April to buy one of the 10,000 copies of the 536-page hardbound book being printed in a run of 10,000 copies in English, French, and German versions. Coelho's stories were written in his native Portuguese, thus his normal literary translators were utilized to render the works in the desired languages. IWC Schaffhausen. Engineering Time since 1868 will be available for 250 Swiss francs on the company's own website or through regular bookstores.