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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
  2. Da Vinci Da Vinci
  3. Ingenieur Ingenieur
  4. Pilots Watches Pilots Watches
  5. Portofino Portofino
  6. Portugieser Portugieser
Case Size
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 Pilot's Mark XVIII IW327011 270055

IWC
Pilot's Mark XVIII
IW327011

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
CHF 4’125
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Chrono IW390406 226058
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Chrono
IW390406

Box
Papers
Year 2016
CHF 7’000
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW502710 269587

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW502710

Box
Papers
Year 2024
Product Location
CHF 19’185
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Mark XVIII IW327015 215047

IWC
Pilot's Mark XVIII
IW327015

Box
Papers
Year 2020
CHF 615
IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound IW545409 262059
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Hand-Wound
IW545409

Box
Papers
Year 2013
CHF 10’055
IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound IW510203 248167

IWC
Portugieser Hand-Wound
IW510203

Box
Papers
Year 2016
CHF 3’315
IWC Big Pilot's IW500908 272288

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500908

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
CHF 8’560
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW329703 258816
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329703

Box
Papers
Year 2023
CHF 7’935
IWC Big Pilot's IW329303 269756

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329303

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 6’055
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW500401 265802

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500401

Box
Papers
Year 2011
Product Location
CHF 5’500
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Automatic IW500101 219745

IWC
Portugieser Automatic
IW500101

Box
Papers
Year 2009
CHF 2’105
IWC Aquatimer IW329003 193545

IWC
Aquatimer
IW329003

Box
Papers
Year 2016
CHF 4’385
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW502710 240393
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW502710

Box
Papers
Year 2022
CHF 16’980
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound IW510102 229105

IWC
Portofino Hand-Wound
IW510102

Box
Papers
Year 2017
CHF 3’930
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW515202 264662

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW515202

Box
Papers
Year 2022
CHF 8’955
IWC Ingenieur IW322404 193330
Limited Edition

IWC
Ingenieur
IW322404

Box
Papers
Year 2017
CHF 4’900
IWC Portugieser Tourbillon IW504402 209743
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Tourbillon
IW504402

Box
Papers
Year 2014
CHF 30’175
IWC Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW377714 274796

IWC
Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW377714

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
CHF 4’905
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW502710 253117
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW502710

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 18’590
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound IW516203 236430

IWC
Portofino Hand-Wound
IW516203

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 8’630
IWC Ingenieur IW376501 203694

IWC
Ingenieur
IW376501

Box
Papers
Year 2012
CHF 3’615
IWC Portofino Chronograph IW391008 277019

IWC
Portofino Chronograph
IW391008

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
CHF 3’465
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW390507 239430

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW390507

Box
Papers
Year 2020
CHF 5’580
IWC Ingenieur IW380801 249271

IWC
Ingenieur
IW380801

Box
Papers
Year 2022
CHF 4’350
IWC Aquatimer IW376705 273769

IWC
Aquatimer
IW376705

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
CHF 3’200
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW390204 270134

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW390204

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
CHF 5’670
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW501002 243036

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW501002

Box
Papers
Year 2018
CHF 8’805
IWC Big Pilot's IW500401 266041

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500401

Box
Papers
Year 2007
Product Location
CHF 6’820
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW500906 215063

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500906

Box
Papers
Year 2017
CHF 5’155
IWC Portugieser Chrono Rattrapante IW371222 266840
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Chrono Rattrapante
IW371222

Box
Papers
Year 2019
CHF 11’755
IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound IW544203 213441
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Hand-Wound
IW544203

Box
Papers
Year 2006
CHF 3’405
IWC Pilot's Spitfire IW387901 266239

IWC
Pilot's Spitfire
IW387901

Box
Papers
Year 2021
CHF 5’990
IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound IW545406 241590

IWC
Portugieser Hand-Wound
IW545406

Box
Papers
Year 2012
CHF 9’935
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW390212 265846

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW390212

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
CHF 8’975
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Mark XVI IW325501 274196

IWC
Pilot's Mark XVI
IW325501

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
CHF 3’025
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW503604 245338
Manufacturer's Warranty

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW503604

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 53’280
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW502805 273824
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW502805

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
CHF 22’100
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW329303 282801

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329303

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 7’185
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW510506 207828
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW510506

Box
Papers
Year 2020
CHF 8’595
IWC Big Pilot's IW501004 247536

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501004

Box
Papers
Year 2018
CHF 8’200
IWC Big Pilot's IW503604 277165
Manufacturer's Warranty

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW503604

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
CHF 53’280
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW377729 253807

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW377729

Box
Papers
Year 2020
CHF 3’780

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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