In this, the year of our Portugieser 2020, IWC also just released some new Portugieser Yacht Club watches as part of Watches Wonders 2020. The Yacht Club has always been an interesting sub-category of the Portugieser, intended to be a sportier breed with features like rubber strap an [...]
Colored ceramics have been a cornerstone of IWCs popular TOP GUN pilots watch line since the first model was introduced to the world in 2007, and over the years the series has branched out from the original black colorway to include suitably military-inspired alternatives like the sandy beige TOP GUN Mojave. As part of its Watches and Wonders 20 [...]
Despite the long-standing popularity of the Big Pilots Watch series and IWCs status as one of the most prolific pilots chronograph makers in the industry, the brand has never brought a chronograph complication to the line-until now. Rather than simply introducing a chronograph complication to the familiar flieger-style IWC design, the brand en [...]
The current luxury sports watch market is embroiled in a materials arms race, with brands across the industry bringing exotic cases in carbon composites, ceramics, and lightweight titanium alloys to a wider scope of watches than ever before. IWC has been at the forefront of this material boom for years, particularly with its use of ceramics, but perhaps its most intriguing [...]
Although the brands beloved line of $1 toy cars may not seem like the most obvious candidate for a luxury watch brand partnership at first glance, Mattels Hot Wheels series has been a gateway into the automotive world for millions of children across the globe for generations. With this level of cultural power behind it, IWCs latest [...]
The IWC Portugieser has, in many ways, been the daddy of modern perpetual-calendar wristwatches. The three variants of the new IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar 42 bring sizes, prices, and visual complexity down for 2020, now allowing for a lower point of entry into the world of [...]
For over 20 years, the Portugieser Chronograph has been an elegantly sporty cornerstone to IWCs product lineup. For the majority of that time, however, the average Portugieser Chronograph model has been powered by a modified version of a readily available caliber from Valjoux or Sellita. While in-house movements have been available in limited edition or high-end [...]
No Longer Made is a series done in collaboration with our partners at eBay, in which editors feature their favorite watches that are no longer in production.?It may be too subjective to call the IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph ref. 3706 the best chrono from the (German part of) Swiss brand, but its definitely among my favorites, alo [...]
About a decade ago, one of the coolest IWC watches out there was the TOP GUN version of the Pilots Watch Chronograph - with the Double Chronograph (rattrapante) model being among the most interesting. I recall being at an event with IWC and meeting Robin Williams there - he was wearing one of the original IWC Pilots Watch Double Chronograph watch [...]
Modifying brand classics without drawing the ire of followers is not an easy task. But when a watch collection, like the IWC Schaffhausen Big Pilots range, has usability at its core, providing an option that does nothing to detract from the originals recognizable appearance - but instead extends the relevance of the [...]
One of the pre-SIHH releases that got my attention was the IWC Pilots Watch Timezoner Spitfire Edition The Longest Flight, a limited edition piece that trims down 2016s Timezoner Chronograph. There is an appetite for wearable travel watches, and while this Timezoner doesnt really get there, its an interesting halfway point that pares do [...]
Its clearly the year of the Spitfire over in Schaffhausen, with IWC bringing not one, not two, but seven new references to SIHH inspired by the legendary mid-century British fighter aircraft. Two of those new references weve already seen: the standard Pilots Chronograph Spitfire in bronze, and the limit [...]
Continuing their military aviation-inspired series, IWC has announced two new members of its Top Gun collection. The two new entrants-the Pilots Watch Chronograph Top Gun IW389101 and the Pilots Watch Automatic Top Gun IW326901-continue the long-standing design aesthetic that IWC has cultured in the pilot watch catalog, now dressed in black ceramic cas [...]
As more brands announce their SIHH 2019 releases, IWC has given us a taste of its novelties this week, including the new IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph Spitfire in bronze. Within IWCs popular and wide-ranging Pilots Watch collection, this is among a number of models dedicated to the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter aircraft called the Spitfire used around [...]
Among several models introduced ahead of the watch industry trade show SIHH 2019, IWC has announced a new version of its Pilots Watch Double Chronograph watch in their deep black Ceratanium material. Just as it sounds, the IWC Pilots Watch Double Chronograph Top Gun Ceratanium uses a high-tech material combining ceramic and titanium, [...]
Were still a little over a month away from SIHH, but that hasnt stopped many of Richemont group brands from spilling the beans on a few key 2019 releases. The latest to join the year-ending tease is IWC, who has just announced a new limited edition Pilots Watch Timezoner (ref. IW395501), as part of a Spitfire refresh which joi [...]
IWC watches are the latest in our Cost of Entry series.After a long hiatus, our Cost of Entry series is back with a look at the?IWC?Mark XVIII. Just having celebrated their 150th Anniversary, IWC watches have been some of the best pilot watches that are priced modestly compared to their more elaborate in-house Big Pilot watches tha [...]
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