No compromises are permitted for anyone who wishes to be among the best. Not in himself, and not in his equipment. The combat pilots at the US Navy Fighter Weapons School are the best in their field. And the IWC pilot’s watches sporting the Top Gun logo, as flight-qualified and extremely robust timepieces, also represent the highest professionalism and operational readiness. After the double chronograph, which was the first to take wing in this top-flight category in 2007, the Edition Top Gun is now receiving its promised reinforcements. The arrival of the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Automatic means that two extreme timepieces from IWC now bear the unmistakeable features of this range... more
08 juillet 2008
It all started more than 140 years ago in Boston where the talented and enterprising watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones was looking for an opportunity to set up on his own and do things much differently and better than his colleagues in the flourishing American watch industry. The director of F. Howard Watch & Cie at that time, he had of course heard of the little country of Switzerland and its outstanding watchmakers. And he was fired up by the information that workers in the Swiss watch industry produced their watches for amazingly low wages and in the main with old machines... more
26 mars 2008
IWC Schaffhausen has been building pilot’s watches for professional use for more than 70years. It knows what pilot’s watches must be able to achieve and endure. The timepieces in its two lines of pilot’s watches, Classic and Spitfire, all bear the rating “flight qualified”. But it is about to get even better – and more exciting. A new IWC pilot’s watch carrying the “TOP GUN” logo of the American elite pilots is ready for take-off. The Pilot’s Watch Double Chronograph Edition TOP GUN... more
31 juillet 2007
How often do we cast a quick glance at our watch? And perceive the position of the two large hands as merely a fleeting image of time information? Only to forget this information immediately. The Regulateur hails from an entirely different tradition of chronometry. It remains to this day the quintessence of the horological precision instrument, which in the18thand19th centuries had its place in observatories, laboratories or watch manufactories. This tradition is now being brought into the present with the exclusivity of the Portuguese Regulateur from IWC... more
18 janvier 2007
Technically advanced watches are a strong point of IWC Schaffhausen – in the water with the Aquatimer, on land with the Ingenieur models and in the air with the extensive range of pilot’s watches. The latter comprises the Classic collection, with dials in the traditional instrument look, and a more elegant collection, whose appearance is just as striking as the aircraft from which the watches take their name: the Spitfire. Tribute to a legend The collection is a tribute to a British fighter aircraft that makes the hearts of ambitious pilots race... more
04 août 2006
The cooperation between The Cousteau Society and IWC, first entered into in 2004, has since grown into a close friendship. The anniversary expedition to the coral reefs in the Red Sea in the year 2003, undertaken with the support of IWC, marked the start of this cooperation: 50 years after the legendary voyage of Jacques-Yves Cousteau into these maritime wonders of nature on his research vessel Calypso, the divers of The Cousteau Society were able... more
28 mai 2006
IWC Edition Antoine de Saint Exupéry
He was called “Saint-Ex” by the Americans because they were unable to pronounce his name. On 31 July 1944... more
19 avril 2006
Vente aux enchères IWC
From December 14 to 21, 2005, one of the most coveted collectors’ items from the House of IWC will be up for auction... more
14 décembre 2005
IWC Ingénieur Automatique
In 1955, IWC launched the Engineer. Half a century later, its latest descendant, the Engineer Automatic 2005 reached the market... more
03 septembre 2005
IWC Portugaise Automatique
At the last SIHH in Geneva, IWC presented three new Portuguese watches, the Portugaise Automatic, the Portugaise Tourbillon Mystère and the Portugaise Répétition Minutes Squelette... more
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No compromises are permitted for anyone who wishes to be among the best. Not in himself, and not in his equipment. The combat pilots at the US Navy Fighter Weapons School are the best in their field. And the IWC pilot’s watches sporting the Top Gun logo, as flight-qualified and extremely robust timepieces, also represent the highest professionalism and operational readiness. After the double chronograph, which was the first to take wing in this top-flight category in 2007, the Edition Top Gun is now receiving its promised reinforcements. The arrival of the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Automatic means that two extreme timepieces from IWC now bear the unmistakeable features of this range... 
It all started more than 140 years ago in Boston where the talented and enterprising watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones was looking for an opportunity to set up on his own and do things much differently and better than his colleagues in the flourishing American watch industry. The director of F. Howard Watch & Cie at that time, he had of course heard of the little country of Switzerland and its outstanding watchmakers. And he was fired up by the information that workers in the Swiss watch industry produced their watches for amazingly low wages and in the main with old machines... 
IWC Schaffhausen has been building pilot’s watches for professional use for more than 70years. It knows what pilot’s watches must be able to achieve and endure. The timepieces in its two lines of pilot’s watches, Classic and Spitfire, all bear the rating “flight qualified”. But it is about to get even better – and more exciting. A new IWC pilot’s watch carrying the “TOP GUN” logo of the American elite pilots is ready for take-off. The Pilot’s Watch Double Chronograph Edition TOP GUN... 
How often do we cast a quick glance at our watch? And perceive the position of the two large hands as merely a fleeting image of time information? Only to forget this information immediately. The Regulateur hails from an entirely different tradition of chronometry. It remains to this day the quintessence of the horological precision instrument, which in the18thand19th centuries had its place in observatories, laboratories or watch manufactories. This tradition is now being brought into the present with the exclusivity of the Portuguese Regulateur from IWC... 
Technically advanced watches are a strong point of IWC Schaffhausen – in the water with the Aquatimer, on land with the Ingenieur models and in the air with the extensive range of pilot’s watches. The latter comprises the Classic collection, with dials in the traditional instrument look, and a more elegant collection, whose appearance is just as striking as the aircraft from which the watches take their name: the Spitfire. Tribute to a legend The collection is a tribute to a British fighter aircraft that makes the hearts of ambitious pilots race... 
The cooperation between The Cousteau Society and IWC, first entered into in 2004, has since grown into a close friendship. The anniversary expedition to the coral reefs in the Red Sea in the year 2003, undertaken with the support of IWC, marked the start of this cooperation: 50 years after the legendary voyage of Jacques-Yves Cousteau into these maritime wonders of nature on his research vessel Calypso, the divers of The Cousteau Society were able... 
He was called “Saint-Ex” by the Americans because they were unable to pronounce his name. On 31 July 1944... 
From December 14 to 21, 2005, one of the most coveted collectors’ items from the House of IWC will be up for auction... 
In 1955, IWC launched the Engineer. Half a century later, its latest descendant, the Engineer Automatic 2005 reached the market... 
At the last SIHH in Geneva, IWC presented three new Portuguese watches, the Portugaise Automatic, the Portugaise Tourbillon Mystère and the Portugaise Répétition Minutes Squelette... 
