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IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days Tribeca Film Festival 2015 (IW5101-11)

I recently purchased this watch in the silver color and every time I wear it, I get compliments. It keeps the correct time and looks great on my wrist. I highly recommend this watch!

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Review by lisa kotula, From China Changzhou

IWC Big Pilot Buenos Aires (IW5004-23)

I only wish it had the day of the month on it but for [$] you can not beat this watch. I have spent more than that on watch band replacements alone.

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Review by ambra nardi, From Germany Kaarst

IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Silver Dial Black Rubber Men's Watch IW376801

This is a lovely IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Silver Dial Black Rubber Men's IW376801 watch. I bought the rose and appreciate the value of the sale price. The bracelet is also perfect for summer weather--airy but substantial design.

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Review by chantal Vaudreuil, From France Chamonix Mont Blanc

IWC launched the Big Pilot's Watch (52-calibre T.S.C.) in 1940 and inaugurated the observer's watches from Schaffhausen. IWC is now reviving this tradition with two new models: the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 55, a special edition of 100 pieces, and the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 48, which is limited to 1,000 pieces.
We presents today the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 55.

For 75 years, the historic Big Pilot's Watch was the largest wristwatch ever made by IWC. In 2016, the Manufacture unveils its successor: with its 55mm case, the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 55 eclipses a record that was set back in 1940.
If IWC's engineers took their cue from the original design and size of 1940, the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 55 is in titanium and weighs only 150 grams (the original in stainless steel weighed 183 grams). Back then, size meant important advantages: a very big movement guaranteed the precision required for navigation or observer's watches and a large dial was better able to accommodate clear numerals and offered much greater legibility. Back in those days, the dial design was very much based on historic cockpit instruments. The dial was matte black, and IWC's watchmakers had coated the big Arabic numerals and indices showing the minutes with a thick layer of beige-coloured radium. The health hazard posed by radioactive luminescent coatings was only recognized years later, at which point radium was replaced by harmless materials. The current Super-LumiNova®* coating guarantees excellent legibility. As in the original, the chapter ring, Arabic numerals and propeller-like hands are beige.

The figure "9" - omitted in subsequent models of the Big Pilot's Watch after 2002 - is back in its old, familiar position. And taking the place of the "12" is a triangular index with dots on either side, which make it possible to recognize the relative position of the hands and read the time even with a cursory glance in the dark. Today, the black dial and triangle are two features typical of a classic pilot's watch. The fact that IWC's designers chose to place it below "12 o'clock" instead of integrating it in the chapter ring is a further evocation of the 1940 original.
However, there is one small, visible difference: the Big Pilot's Heritage Watch 55 does not feature a central seconds hand like the Big Pilot's Watch (52-calibre T.S.C. - Tirette Seconde Centrale), produced in accordance with military specifications. Back then, pulling out the crown stopped the balance, thus allowing pilots and navigators to synchronize their watches with down-to-the-second accuracy. Today, the small seconds is found at "6 o'clock", and the IWC hand-wound 98300 calibre can likewise be stopped by pulling out the crown.

As is usual in an observer's watch, the titanium case is sandblasted to eliminate reflections that might be detrimental to the watch's legibility or betray the wearer's position to the enemy. The watch movement itself is protected against magnetic fields by a soft-iron inner case. The cone-shaped crown is a reminder of those early days of flying, when pilots in their unheated cockpits were forced to wear thick gloves. With such a large crown, it would be easy to overwind and damage the mechanism, which for safety's sake is equipped with a friction clutch to prevent this from happening.
The IWC hand-wound 98300 calibre features an elongated index for simple and precise setting of the active length of the spring, a highly effective shock absorption system and a 46-hour power reserve.

The brown calfskin strap also takes its inspiration from the historic leather strap found on the Big Pilot's Watch. The strap is divided in two and sewn together at the ends, which makes it impossible to drop the watch accidentally when putting it on your wrist. Then, as now, two rivets on the spring bar hold the strap together.

We are delighted to announce that Anonimo is the latest partner brand to join the WorldTempus fold. Find out more about the brand combining Swiss Made watchmaking with its Italian roots on our freshly published dedicated page and win one of their distinctive timepieces in our monthly competition from tomorrow (which also means that today is your last chance to win an Emile Chouriet watch in our November competition).

With the kind support of 22 of our partner brands WorldTempus aims to brighten up the end of the year with an Advent Calendar competition in which there are some great prizes to be won every day from tomorrow until 24th December. From the indispensable watchmaker's loupe to fragrances for ladies and gents up to VIP tickets to an Arsenal FC match, there is something for everyone. But you only have 24 hours to enter every competition, so don't forget to stop by every day to see what you could win!

Later this week Olivier Muller celebrates 10 years of the IWC Ingenieur collection, while I ponder the subject of central tourbillons and why there are so few of them. We also publish the first articles from the latest issue of GMT Lady magazine, which has just hit the newsstands.

It is a sobering thought that the research station set up by the Charles Darwin Foundation in 1964 to preserve and protect the Galapagos Islands faced an uncertain future only a few years ago. But, thanks to the intervention of a German investor, Swen Lorenz, and a major partnership with IWC Schaffhausen, the organisation has been turned around and is going from strength to strength.

The Research Station, which is home to around a hundred scientists, students, teachers and volunteers, has helped prevent the extinction of the islands' legendary giant tortoises and preserved 95 per cent of the astonishing biodiversity that Charles Darwin discovered when he first set foot there on 15^th September 1835.

Watchmaker IWC also celebrates a more modest anniversary, having supported the Charles Darwin Foundation since 2009, as part of the brand's philanthropic activities. For the 50^th anniversary of the Research Station, IWC has introduced three special chronographs dedicated to this cause as part of its revamp of the Aquatimer collection this year: The "Galapagos Islands" edition, the "50 Years Science for Galapagos Edition" and the "Expedition Charles Darwin" edition, which features the brand's first case made out of bronze.

IWC is now one of the most important benefactors of the Charles Darwin foundation and its annual contribution has allowed various projects to be implemented, such as a new shark tagging project that will start in July 2014. "Through its funding, IWC is a driving force for our Galapagos Shark Research and Conservation Project. The research helps us to understand more about the movement and migration patterns of these creatures both within and outside the Galapagos Marine Reserve, information which will help us implement measures to protect them," says Swen Lorenz, CEO of the Charles Darwin Foundation.

Much like the hangars housing the state of the art supersonic jets at the elite flying school in Fallon, Nevada, the impressive high-tech ceramic case of this watch accommodates some of watchmaking's greatest achievements.

High-tech meets Haute Horlogerie: The Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN (Ref. 502902) comes with features guaranteed to send the adrenalin level of watch lovers soaring. It starts with the IWC-manufactured 51614-calibre movement with Pellaton winding system, one of the most efficient automatic winding systems in the history of watchmaking.
After just 1,960 revolutions, the spring-mounted rotor and Pellaton pawl-winding system build up a 7-day power reserve. To put this in perspective: on average, human beings move their arms about 3,000 times a day. The power reserve display in the subdial at "3 o'clock" is a constant reminder of the movement's efficiency. It generates enough energy to power a wealth of watchmaking complications, such as the perpetual calendar with its four-digit year display and the date, day and month displays. All the displays are easily adjusted via the crown and advance automatically. The perpetual calendar will not require intervention by a watchmaker until 2100, a year that breaks with the conventional 4-year cycle and will not be a leap year.
The current century slide bears the numbers 20, 21 and 22 and will therefore come to the end of its service life on 31 December 2299. Two discreet air-craft silhouettes on the moon phase display at "12 o'clock" indicate the state of the moon as seen from the northern and southern hemispheres. In each lunar month, i.e. about 29.5 days, the watch's imitation of the moon's orbit deviates by about 12seconds. Other highlights hidden away in the movement include a Glucydur® beryllium alloy balance and Breguet spring.

Pilot's Watch design leans on historic forebears
The Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar TOP GUN makes no secret of its illustrious past, parading it confidently in its very name. In 1940, its historic forebear established the design cues for the Pilot's Watch as we know it today. The modern version combines the classical instrument appearance - contrasting a white chapter ring with an arrowhead index on a matte-black dial - with the sporty design of the TOP GUN line.
The ceramic case and titanium crown allude to the technological leadership traditionally held by the Schaffhausen-based manufacturer: IWC introduced titanium as a case material and discovered ceramics for the watchmaking industry way back in the 1980s. The 48-millimetre case is secured with a black soft strap that is as rugged as it is comfortable to wear.
The Top Gun logo on the back of the case is an unequivocal statement that this timepiece is high technology at its best and one of the most complex pilot's watches ever built.