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IWC Watches

Since its inception in 1868, IWC has been cementing its motto of 'Probus Scafusia', meaning 'good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen'. Modern IWC watches undergo rigorous development and extensive testing, using advanced electric discharge machines, to ensure these standards are still adhered to over a century later.
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  1. Aquatimer Aquatimer
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  5. Pilots Watches Pilots Watches
  6. Portofino Portofino
  7. Portugieser Portugieser
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The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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IWC Aquatimer IW379507 251760

IWC
Aquatimer
IW379507

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£7,610
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW390212 265846

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW390212

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
£8,085
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound IW201003 267854

IWC
Portofino Hand-Wound
IW201003

Box
Papers
Year 2005
Product Location
£2,910
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW500908 251267

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500908

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
£10,220
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW510301 251733
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW510301

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
£7,405
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW501005 251771
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501005

Box
Papers
Year 2017
Product Location
£8,705
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW357001 277938

IWC
Ingenieur
IW357001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£3,480
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW500401 266041

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500401

Box
Papers
Year 2007
Product Location
£6,145
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW503604 277165
Manufacturer's Warranty

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW503604

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£48,000
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Mark XVIII IW324711 274298
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Mark XVIII
IW324711

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£8,250
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW329702 274287

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329702

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
£5,850
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW501014 274286
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501014

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
£9,630
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound IW516406 274299
Limited Edition

IWC
Portofino Hand-Wound
IW516406

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
£8,250
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Mark XVIII IW324711 274297
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Mark XVIII
IW324711

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
£8,250
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Automatic Top Gun IW326906 268383

IWC
Pilot's Automatic Top Gun
IW326906

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
£5,750
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW502710 269587

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW502710

Box
Papers
Year 2024
Product Location
£17,285
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW329703 253477
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329703

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
£7,150
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Da Vinci Chronograph IW393402 256904
Limited Edition

IWC
Da Vinci Chronograph
IW393402

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
£7,250
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Spitfire IW387802 248612

IWC
Pilot's Spitfire
IW387802

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
£5,115
incl. import taxes & duties

IWC History


Some watch brands have a certain inimitable style, and the International Watch Company is one of them. Distinguished by striking designs and unmatchable quality, IWC watches have held a special place in the hearts of watch enthusiasts since the company’s inception in 1868.

Fresh from his directorship at the American watch company E. Howard and Co., engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones set about opening a factory in Switzerland with the intention of combining American engineering with Swiss precision. It would be the basis of his new company, IWC. He immediately hit a snag when the watchmakers in the French-speaking areas of Switzerland—who traditionally worked from home—opposed his decision to open a factory.

White coal pioneer Johann Heinrich Moser began discussions with Florentine to open the factory in the German-speaking area of Switzerland instead, specifically in Schaffhausen. Johann had brought industrialisation to Schaffhausen with his hydro-electric plant, and the power it produced was perfect for the machines Florentine needed to make watches. In 1868, under the power of the River Rhine, IWC was born.

The company came on to the watchmaking scene with a bang, introducing the world’s first digital mechanical pocket watches in 1885. The Pallweber had windows cut into the dial, through which rotating discs displayed the hours and minutes. The public began to take notice of the watchmaker immediately.

The brand continued developing pocket watch movements to make them smaller and more compact for use in ladies’ pocket watches. These movements ended up in the first IWC watches that could be worn on the wrist, produced towards the end of the 19th century. The in-house Calibre 64 movement was particularly favoured for its crown and sub-seconds arrangement.

It wasn’t until 1944 that the next significant advancement occurred at the company, when Albert Pellaton started his career as Technical Director. The first of his developments was a soft iron core in the case of the brand’s pilots’ watch, which protected the movement from magnetic fields. Next came the Pellaton automatic winding system, an ingenious pawl-operated design that allowed a movement to be wound in both directions while simultaneously providing exceptional shock resistance. It remains a patented feature in the company’s watches to this day.

But it’s not just the final product that demonstrates the brand’s level of quality: it’s the journey it takes to get there. Modern IWC watches undergo rigorous development and testing using advanced electric discharge machines and computer-aided design. The manufacture’s parts can be made with tolerances as little as 0.001 millimetres—one hundredth the width of a human hair. This applies to all of the brand’s models: the Pilots’ Watches, the Portofino, the Ingenieur, the Aquatimer, the Da Vinci and the Portuguese included.

It would be safe to assume that components manufactured to this level of detail would be delicate, but IWC watches refuse to obey the laws of physics. Each development watch undergoes a rigorous set of tests, one of which being the ‘chapuis extreme’, a test that involves the watch being shaken 264,000 times in a box at forces of up 500 G.

It is therefore fitting for the brand, whose quality and technology are unmatched by others, to have the motto ‘Probus Scafusia’—meaning ‘good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen’. Perhaps that is an understatement.

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