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IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XV White (IW3253-09)

Bought this for my son, he really likes the looks but does say the loud ticking is somewhat distracting.

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Review by Siena K, From USA Tupelo

IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Racer Silver / Bracelet (IW3785-10)

This is a great looking IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Racer Silver / Bracelet (IW3785-10) watch. It looks a lot more expensive than it actually is. The face is very readable. If you have a small wrist, it may be too large due to the shape of the case.

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Review by shuley futon, From England London

IWC Portofino Automatic Brown Alligator (IW3513-24)

These IWC Portofino watches are great looking and fun to wear. I have quite a collection of watches and these are among my favorites. I also interchange the bezels between the different colors I have for a two-toned look. What fun!

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Review by Megan Branston, From USA Downers Grove

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.

He acquired experience in the FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) sector as a brand manager with Kraft Foods Switzerland before gaining a foothold in the watch industry at TAG Heuer (LVMH Group).
He joined the Richemont Group, the Swiss luxury goods corporation, in 2000. Following that group's acquisition of A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC, he was active in the integration of these three brands. When Georges Kern joined IWC Schaffhausen early in 2002, at the age of 36, he became the youngest CEO within Richemont.
Alongside his corporate objectives, he is also committed to charitable causes, for example through his position on the Board of Trustees of the Laureus Foundation, which helps young people to overcome their social problems through sport. Georges Kern is a patron of the Fondation Antoine de Saint-Exupery pour la Jeunesse, which supports disadvantaged young people on their path to adulthood.
Georges Kern counts active climate protection among his corporate responsibilities. Upon his initiative, IWC was certified as a carbon-neutral company; he is also a trustee of the London-based organisation "The Climate Group". The goal of this independent, non-profit organisation is to help government and business leaders worldwide to achieve a rapid reduction of CO2 emissions.
As a representative of the watch industry and the CEO of a brand founded by an American, Georges Kern sits on the board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.

Introduced in 2005 as a pioneering project within the East building, the use of heat pumps and groundwater for heating and cooling lies at the core of endeavours for a positive energy balance. As the new West building enters service, this innovative system has now been extended with three more heat pumps to meet its energy requirements. For creating the building's interior environment, this pumping system can produce 6 °C cooling or 58 °C heating supplied separately or in tandem.
In addition, IWC extracts heat from the city's sewer system using a 60-metre long heat exchanger, thus obtaining additional energy for heating and cooling purposes. Furthermore, groundwater pumped from two well shafts and fed to indoor chilled beams for cooling plays a major role in the overall system. Use of these innovative technologies massively reduces the need for fossil fuels.
Cladding the building is a triple-glazed skin; its high insulation factor is a significant help in reducing energy requirements. Rainwater collected from the roof of the new West building goes to flush toilets, another measure that is in keeping with IWC's policy of active climate protection.

Thanks to IWC's trailblazing practices with renewable energy resources, CO2 emissions from production facilities could be halved even before the West wing was occupied. The new building will be of major help in further improving this balance, and it underlines the company's drive to actively contribute towards climate protection.
"We have economic, social and environmental responsibilities", asserted CEO Georges Kern.
This commitment, revealed not only in sustainable construction practices but also in employee programmes, is continually adjusted and kept up-to-date. Each year, the company provides a budget of 250,000 Swiss francs for employee initiatives to reduce the environmental burden. For example, IWC offers financial support for ecological measures in private building-conversion projects of their staff.
CO2 emissions accruing from deliveries, business travel and events are subject to constant review and reduction. In case that proves infeasible, IWC makes good on the shortfall by financial means - compensation contributions from the Schaffhausen company are helping to promote a wind-energy project in China.
Such addressing of environmental issues earned IWC certification as a CO2-neutral company in summer 2007. Looking ahead, modernisation of its premises alone will enable IWC to achieve a 90 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010.

Innovative and ecologically sound

Active climate protection and environmental responsibility are mainstays of the company philosophy at IWC Schaffhausen, just as much as the b presence of its watches.
This longstanding business has put prolonged effort into improving its environmental track record, which led to certification as a CO2-neutral company last year. In its new West building, IWC likewise uses the latest technologies to reduce CO2 emissions:
• Eco-friendly heat pumps for heating and cooling
• Chilled beams fed by groundwater
• Use of heat from wastewater in Schaffhausen's sewer system
• Use of rainwater
• Heat recovery from exhaust air
• Use of "Clean Solution" hydroelectricity
• State-of-the art slat blinds to shade the building façade from the sun's rays
• Triple-skinned glass façade with a high insulation factor

Symbolic architecture
 
As with the East wing, Schaffhausen architects Hofer and Kick have chosen a contemporary, international language of form and materials for the new West building. Its four storeys symmetrically complement the manufactory's East wing and together they extend out to the Rhine, framing the main building erected by Florentine Ariosto Jones, the company's founder. "The West building was conceived as being formally analogous to the existing East wing", wrote the architects in their construction report, "while rigorously refining the high technical standards already in place."

The glass façades create expansive, high-ceilinged workspaces, suffused with light. The open plan structure encourages interaction among employees. Generous dimensions in the indoor lounge areas and an open-air terrace between the old and new building bear witness to a contemporary, communicative corporate culture. Says CEO Georges Kern, "A company's building architecture does more than radiate an outward statement, it also affects employees' sense of well-being and motivation."
The company's status as a producer of luxury goods with understated cachet is also apparent in the choice of materials for the new West building. Glazed concrete symbolises architectural coolness, high-grade wooden floors signify consummate Swissness, while the application of glass and metal promotes an unassumingly elegant yet self-assured reverence for Schaffhausen's tradition as a long-established industrial centre.
At those moments when the watchmakers' manufactory becomes bathed in the reflected flicker of sunlight playing on the waters of the Rhine, it is possible to experience the romance that during the 19th Century transformed this craft into a coveted occupation. In this respect, the new West building stands as an architectural icon of a renaissance in the art of watchmaking.

Looking ahead
The concentration of all production at the Schaffhausen site is one of the most commercially and ecologically sound recipes for success in this prospering watchmaking manufactory. Throughout the years of steady construction activity, IWC has given shape to ambitious plans for expanding its premises. In 2005, the East building opened as a modern production facility that set standards for sustainability and harmonious integration with the urban landscape. In the second phase, IWC remodelled its watch museum. Since 2007, mechanical watches past and present have found a stylish home in a contemporary lounge setting within the main manufactory building. The adjoining IWC boutique, opened concurrently with the museum, has developed into a further magnet for visitors. With the new West building completed, one of the most innovative building systems around today is now in operation. The ecological measures implemented in its construction translate into a considerable reduction in CO2 emissions from the premises.

 
Elegant and refined : Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days
The Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days seamlessly takes up a tradition established by this watch family that goes back over 25 years. When the first Portofino watch took the world by storm in 1984, it was a scintillating combination of understated elegance and precision mechanics. The watch was, and still is, a perfect piece for connoisseurs. This is particularly true of the Portofino family's new flagship, which will also appeal to devotees of complex yet highly functional watchmaking. For ticking away inside the elegant, round case is the new IWC-manufactured 59210 calibre: designed and built using stateof- the-art methods, it never loses sight of Schaffhausen's great watchmaking tradition. For more than a quarter of a century, the Portofino watch family has been the epitome of the classical wristwatch, its design a distillation of the entire know-how and experience of IWC's engineers. This applies especially to the new Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days, whose elegance and technological sophistication have established it as the flagship of the Portofino family. A case measuring 45 millimetres in diameter ensures that it cannot fail to be noticed, but thanks to the simple, round shape it still appears pleasingly discreet. Connoisseurs with a weakness for beautiful things and technological perfection will be enraptured by the Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days. urs.Making a big show of things is simply not the style of the centrepiece of this watch family: what counts in the Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days are inner qualities and technical superiority. Ticking away inside the case is the newly developed IWC-manufactured movement from the 50000-calibre family, measuring a hefty 37.8 millimetres in diameter. The 59210 calibre is the same size as a pocket watch movement, but its design is incomparably more modern. As you would expect, it is highly robust and reliable, and designed to meet all the exacting demands of watch devotees in the 21st century. Despite its undisputed elegance, the Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days is a watch made for everyday use through and through - as it has already proved in tough and extensive testing in the IWC laboratories. In keeping with the movement's size, IWC's engineers equipped the 59210 calibre with an extra large barrel, which ensures that the latest, hand-wound Portofino will keep running for an unusually long time. It is capable of storing enough energy for a full nine days. Instead of making use of all this potential, however, IWC designers chose to insert a gear that stops the movement after precisely 192 hours, or 8 days. Causing the movement to stop before all the tension in the spring has been exhausted eliminates the danger of diminishing torque in the mainspring.
This ensures that the same level of accuracy is maintained the whole time the watch is running. Precisely how long the watch will continue to run before its owner needs to wind the movement can be read off from the power reserve display on the dial. But the owner who chooses to wind his Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days once a week over Sunday breakfast is certainly on the safe side. The b mainspring is just one of several design elements that help to guarantee the watch's precision.
The new movement also features an indexless balance, which is precision-adjusted using the four golden weight screws on the balance rim. Its frequency, as is by now standard for modern watch movements, is 4 hertz, or 28,800 beats per hour. This, like the Breguet spiral bent into shape using traditional watchmaking techniques, also helps to make the watch so accurate. The modernity of the movement is likewise underscored by its design. The rear of the movement is dominated by two large bridges that conceal it entirely except for the balance. The upper bridge serves as the bearing for the barrel, the differential and the winding mechanism, the lower bridge for the power reserve display. Apart from this, it also conceals the train bridge below. All the bridges and cocks are exquisitely decorated with Geneva stripes or circular graining. Standing out at the centre is the engraving "Probus Scafusia" - "Good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen".
IWC's designers have remained true to the classical Portofino style not only in the circular case with its smooth, flowing strap horns, but also in the design of the dial. The placing of the displays - small seconds at "6 o'clock", date at "3 o'clock" and power reserve between "8" and "9" - ensures that the layout is finely balanced. The hours and minutes are shown by feuille hands that revolve above the embossed, solid indices and the Roman XII. The red gold Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days comes with a slate-coloured dial, which likewise features indices made of solid red gold. It is also available in a simple stainless-steel case, this time with a silver-plated dial with rose-gold-plated indices or a black dial with rhodium-plated indices.All versions of the watch are secured to the wrist by a unique pale brown or dark brown alligator leather strap made by the renowned Italian shoemakers Santoni. The straps are fitted with pin buckles as standard. Straps with folding clasps are also available as an option.