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November 16, 2010

IWC Launched the Galapagos Islands Aquatimer Chronograph Watch

Filed under: Aquatimer — Tags: , — Iwcer @ 6:38 pm

IWC Aquatimer “Galapagos Islands” chronograph watch with matte rubber dial, is made by a complex vulcanization, make the stainless steel case from 44mm diameter become to a experiencing of vision and touch sentation. Every case are heating and inflating in a purpose made mould, combine with the touch of warm, prevention of collision and slip permanentily. Watch strap are made by same black rubber, quickly transform system connect the new watch chain of Aquatimer with watch case. Equipped with newly developed scale in minutes and can only adjust the rotating counterclockwise diving bezel, the Aquatimer have a noticeable change. With respect with adjusting the transfer inner ring by crown, slip resistant watch bezel have two advantage point: also can operate under the water. It show the brightness fo this important dive equipment(with minute hand). Rotating bezel is a new design, will become the necessary part of every Aquatimer watch. The watch bezel cover with 4mm sapphire glass, tightly embed in the surface of watch bezel. sapphire glass bottom bezel with thick Super-LumiNova luminescent coating. No light, although can shine through the surface of sapphire glass bezel and graduated number.

Aquatimer “Galapagos Islands” Chronograph
Material: stainless stell
Movement: Cal.Ref.3767 movement
Funtions: hours, minutes, second, date, week display
Dimensions: 44mm
Mirror: sapphire crystal
Waterproof: 120m

Innovative watch chain quickly change system, as long as loosen automatic lock equipment in the watch with hand and replace watch strap or chain easy. Without tools, quickly transfer just need several minutes. Rubber strap even can change to lengthen snap ring strap, so that can wear the watch outside the diver suits. Aquatimer “Galapagos Islands” chronograph watch with anti-pressure funtions, can stand 12bar pressure, in technology, Aquatimer automatic chronograph watch, when full with chain the power reserve can be 44 hours, and accumulate record hours more than 12 hours. The numeral of watch case and rotate watch bezel is still strong comparison between black and white. Only small second hand is yellow, as the pointer for checking funtions.

November 12, 2010

IWC Sponsored the China 2008 Lawrence Award

Filed under: News — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Iwcer @ 11:00 am

Schaffhausen IWC sponsored the championship award of  the 2008 China Top Ten Benefiting Laureus

November 21,2008, China Top Ten Benefiting Laureus championship award party was ceremoniously hold in beijing 21 century theatre. hunan TV was broadcasted live for this ceremoniously opening.

With the great achievement of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the”China Top Ten Benefiting Laureus” has more attract worldwide attention. Those people enter candidate list, Olympic athletes,  Paralympic athletes, Wisdom Olympics athletes, unless those who have task are appear at the party. IOC member, HK Jacques Rogge Mr Timothy Fok, former Olympic champion, Lawrence champion commission deng yaping and committee xu haifeng, gao ming, lang ping, mo huilan and so on unless those who draw a lottery onstage, World Olypic athletes association president Richard Fosbury, Laureus World Sport Awards Media Director Scott Borden, Laureus World Charity Ambassador Taig khris, Laureus World Sports Academy member Mark Sptiz also make a special trip to the scene as guests of honor. in additintion, Na Ying, Lin Chi-ling, Sun Hong Lei, Zhang Jing chu, yu Dan so on are famous in sport and recreation, are together in the century theathre to witness the major awards announced.

The whole country TV viewer witness the oscar of sport. In the award ceremony of that evening, more than ten prizes were awarded for top athletes in different sport domain. Moreover, every athletes who get the prizes are can get an award cup of Lawrence Top Ten Award trophy and one Schaffhausen IWC limited edition watch (China top table at the end Lawrence engraved logo).

Lawrence Sports Fund was founded in 1999 by Daimler – Chrysler and Richemont together established the fund, they are Mercedes-Benz and mother company of Schaffhausen IWC. The purpose of establishing this fund is to help the weark teenage in the whole world, fund have been sponsor 39 events in the whole world including china now.

Schaffhausen IWC which is reputed watch manufacturer of the world, is also a sponsor for Lawrence and Lawrence Top Ten champion Award; which is establish in 1868 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is one of the most successful watch manufacturers in the world; setting a standards for technical research and development and highly complicated precision watch. Since its estalished, the brand has been “Probus Scafusia” (from the IWC (IWC) technology and exquisite craft extraordinary) for tabulation purposes, senior campaign IWC IWC watch is a very important area. Schaffhausen IWC is very pleased with China’s State Sports General Administration continues to support the 2008 Top Ten Award winner Laurence.

The CEO of Schaffhausen IWC Joe Kee, Mr. Adams said: “We are very honored to have this opportunity  with the legendary creation of many men and women athletes and sports organizations, and support China’s Top Ten Award winner Laurence.” If only can quoted one reason, Adams said Schaffhausen IWC shown the responsible in  Lawrence, because it is a rare opportunity. IWC produce the high quality sports watch, and have relation with sport start for many years. It is very honor that IWC can cooperate with those perfect sports stars. In addition, the well-known corporations : Sports Academy includes 21 different nationalities and different cultures and religious beliefs. Joe Adams believes that this is another demonstrate to show physical activity can eliminate the ethnic, cultural and religious between different national. Or, as former South African civil leader Nelson Mandela said succinctly : “Sports has the power to change the world; it has the power of inspiration; it has a very unique power to unite people. It uses the language which young people can understand to speak with young people. physical activity can make people create hope when desperate. to eliminate racial differences in terms of its role effectively than the government can do much more. ”

Portuguese Automatic Chronograph watch (a gift of limited edition, engraved in bottom of the watch with the signs of top ten Lawrence)

Make the refined watch For the modern Navigator and explorer, Portuguese navigator not only interest in sailing, also the precise time is equally important to them, therefore, promoting the born of Portuguese Chronograph. Portuguese Automatic Chronograph watch with Portuguese Chrono-Rattrapante is brother in same company, Portuguese Chrono-Rattrapante’s appearance captivated a lot of watch lover, and a large demand for this watch enourage Schaffhausen watchmakers make Automatic Chronograph, they setting the automatic winding device in the space of original Chrono-Rattrapante. The 79350-type movement, transfer 28,800 per hour to run to ensure accuracy of the watch, is the best partner for sailing. Needless to say, the Portuguese Automatic Chronograph watch also features the typical characteristics of the Portuguese watch: embossed Arabic numerals, slender recessed dovetail-style pointer and minutes and seconds lap.

 

Model IW371401

Stainless steel case

With a black crocodile leather strap

Features

Machinery chronograph movement | Self-winding | Small seconds with stop valve device | Gem glass convex lens surface |

30 meters waterproof | Case thickness 12.3 mm | 40.9 mm in diameter

The China Top Ten Laurence Award winner complete list of winners is as follows:

Best Breakthrough Award: Zhong Man,

Male Athlete of the Year Award: Yang Wei

Female Athlete of the Year Award: Zhang Yining

Rookie of the Year Award: Long qingquan, Liu zige

Best Choice Award: Guo Jingjing

Best Team Award: Chinese table tennis team

Mobilization of the Year Award for Non-Olympic Games: Chinese mountaineering team

Coach of the Year Award: Huang Yubin

Best Disabled Athlete Award: Du Jianping

Best combination of award: Meng guanLiang, Yang Wenjun

Annual Special Award: Juan-Juan Zhang, Du Li, Zhang Ning, Zhang Lin, Zou Shiming, Guo Jingjing / Wu Min Xia, LIU Chun

Annual Lifetime Achievement Award: Henry Fok

World Olympians Association of the Year Award 2008: Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, China Mobile

November 6, 2010

IWC Skeleton Watch – Engraved Golden Years

Filed under: Portuguese — Tags: , , , , — Iwcer @ 2:32 pm

Watch can make time of stagnation. The high accurate Portuguese Tourbillon skeleton watch is IWC Schaffhausen’s latest mechanical masterpiece, its origins can be traced back to many centuries ago. Equipped with the apex of the movement for watchmaking industry ─ tourbillon, together with the traditional craftsmen skilled in the skeleton, mechanical car flowers and engraved art. Placed the movement in the classic Portugal skeleton case, there is platinum, rose gold and platinum styles for watch enthusiasts to choose, each limited to 50 only.

Portuguese not noly had found Madeira, the Azores and Cape Verde Islands, but also knows where to find the best watch: Switzerland. Like this, Rodrigues and Teixeira, the Portuguese merchants came to Schaffhausen in 1936, commissioned by the IWC create a timer function with navigational watch. In contrast with the trend of the time, the watch size should be large, and must be accurately timed.

 
Rodrigues and Teixeira also required to the IWC that watch must be legible orders and extremely accurate. The latest Portuguese Tourbillon skeleton watch is a modern interpretation of the first edition of the Portuguese watch. Not only that, it combined the skeleton, engraved and mechanical vehicles with flowers and other ancient craft with watchmaking tradition, but also a perfect match.

Tourbillon is the art of watchmaking and finishing a good example of successful integration. The engraved small window of Portuguese watch on the timing disk, tourbillon in the rapid rotation. In order to become true classics, IWC engineers designed a framework of rotation in per minute, containing Breguet balance spring and screw balance wheel escapement composed. Was this whirlwind set the rules, which literally is French tourbillon, literal meaning is the whirlwind. Conspicuous position on the timing plate and a tourbillon function: is the “will move the number 12.” Since only the bottom of the tourbillon bearings, giving the illusion of floating. It has 81 separate parts, but the weight was only 0.443 g, indeed was a major technological achievement. Assembly is so fine, no doubt, still be considered Tourbillon Workshop of the tabulation process for.

The following is the 5000 movement which is IWC maufate manufacture, which is characterized with 7 day power reserve. Wearer can see the remaining power reserve at the position of 5 which display. Gossamer barrel is a patent from the Buhler Dayton automatic chain system for energy.

Although strong and accurate movement has been little improvement in the design space, but the appearance is still has a little changes. In fact, everything is done right. Drive time is now only left a small circle shown in minutes, and other parts such as plywood and boards, even turn Tuo are reduced to a minimum. All unnecessary parts have been subtracted, in order to allow reconstruction of the machinery at a glance carefully. In the portugal watch baby we can see the acxhivement of watchmakers, can reach this level of the whole of Europe’s master is running low. Almost every movement and mechanical parts are created by engraved and car flower master Jochen Benzinge, he did not just carved out of them, but hand-engraved. He also used many car machinery which is available in the nineteenth and twentieth century, processing of each component.

 
Sapphire glass mirror and bottom so that the movement at a glance. This miniature masterpiece of machinery placed in the classic case of Portugal in the round. Those who love the table can choose platinum, rose gold or platinum styles. Each material will produce 50 gold watch, make this section unique watch even more valuable.

In addition to time on the pursuit of excellence, all the Portuguese watch has the same classic timeless style. Watch lovers can appreciate engineers, watchmakers and technicians craft engraved in the Portuguese Tourbillon skeleton watch, feel IWC watch has a long history of watchmaking, listening to a history of accommodating maritime power. To be sure: if Rodrigues and Teixeira is still alive, are bound to purchase this watch.

Portuguese Automatic Chronograph

Navigator and explorer for the modern refined watch Portuguese navigator sailing in addition to interest, the precise time is equally important to them, therefore promoting the Portuguese Chronograph Series was born. Portugal and Portuguese Automatic Chronograph watch is a brother, Portugal after needle appearance captured the hearts of many watch style who love the table, and a large demand for this watch inspired the Schaffhausen watchmakers to develop the Automatic Chronograph watch, they chase second mechanism in the original set of space built into the automatic winding device. The 79350-type movement, transfer 28,800 per hour to run to ensure accuracy of the watch is the best partner voyage. Needless to say, the Portuguese Automatic Chronograph watch also features the typical characteristics of the Portuguese watch: embossed Arabic numerals, slender recessed dovetail-style pointer and minutes and seconds lap.

18K rose gold case, with dark brown crocodile leather strap

 
Movement: mechanical chronograph movement | self-winding | Small seconds with stop valve device
Mirror: convex lens surface of glass gems
Waterproof: 30 meters
Case: Thickness 12.3 mm | 40.9 mm in diameter

November 5, 2010

Several Classic IWC Models

Filed under: Da Vinci — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Iwcer @ 2:54 pm

The Economic Observer reporter Xu Simiao the meaning of the classic is a perfect match of Necessity and Contingency, just as previous Schaffhausen watchmakers burst the precision craft and inspiration. However, as to IWC, so many classic that people could not attend – the magazine has reported IWC has launched six engraved watch for the founding of 140th anniversary, where to stop drilling. Introduced only this year, the other back to life of the classic watch, I’m afraid the limited layout can not enjoy other words, only the Silver Sea cockle readers.

 
Portuguese Tourbillon 5N rose gold watch Ref.IW5042

One minute to “fly” tourbillon, Buhler Dayton Automatic system and 7 days power reserve of the Portuguese Tourbillon, must be undoubtedly to IWC which on is the most complex watch beautiful watch one of the most sought after. not only can prying tourbillon  mystery  from the small window of the dial, and hiding in the bottom of the table behind the transparent sapphire glass, is a bigger secret: globally unique 50,900-type movement – currently the largest one of the automatic watch movement .

 

Cousteau Divers Chronograph Ref.IW3782

The legendary Cousteau famous diving exploration ship “card cases Ipsos” No. long retired early due to damages, but the ship for the hundreds of thousands of people, still has a symbolic significance. IWC in 2006 issued a “Cousteau Divers” special edition re-launched this year, another diver “charity” watch in order to raise funding for repairs Calypso number. The end of the watch of the table set with a small piece of wood from the Calypso number, quite memorable.

 
Grande Complication rose gold case model Ref.IW3770

This watch new entrants rose gold, platinum and gold watch case with models limited the cumulative production of 50 pieces per year. With 659 separate mechanical parts, features 21 extend to the audible range from the dial, which lasted 7 years design and manufacture of unique three repeater device, you can use the button case started sliding side to the time the most miniature orchestra shell, tone clear and melodious.

 
Da Vinci perpetual calendar Kurt Klaus Sepcial Edition Ref.IW3762

This is an advertised “Some opportunities never come back” watch, before launched the platinum and rose gold watch is almost sold out, the original calendar released the same time the device configuration da Vinci watch, made of stainless steel strap, in addition to moon phases display, four-digit year display and in the end of table carved statue of Kurt Klaus and rare limited edition of 3000 degrees in the world, it must be brought a collection of nations trend once again inevitably.

 
IWC Design Director Guy Bove

Q: this year, IWC launched the latest series of the classic engraved watch, because it is engraved, the designer can do little things, right? ;

A: (laughs) is not the case, re-interpretation of the classic series, is to make modern people are able to receive the most primitive and the impact of moving from the IWC. But taking into account the aesthetic needs of people, the dial diameter of the original version is increaser than Vintage Series watch, and our task is the need for new materials, new manufacturing processes based on the proportion to keep this series watch the continuation of the visual and aesthetic concepts of heritage, it is a very important and very difficult work.

Q: What made you come to IWC chair design? Can you describe what you know about the character of IWC?

A: I can answer you the two questions together, I went to IWC because my personality is very consistent with IWC. I am a dynamic person, and to some extent both traditional and modern thinking, IWC is so, we both complement each other.

Q: as a design director, will you personally design watch?

A: Yes. But my work is not limited to a simple design, but how to coordinate the design, manufacturing, engineering and many other inter-sectoral convergence, in fact, this year you can see I have a lot of watches in the design, of course, more credit is the IWC strong design team.

(Economic Observer reported, “quality of life” special issue)

November 4, 2010

IWC Woodpecker Automatic Transmission Structure

Filed under: Movement — Tags: , — Iwcer @ 2:03 pm

 

The retractor structure looks like Woodpecker is IWC bracelet following 8X (89 patients) series after the 1950 launch of the 85 series of automatic winding drive mechanism, for example, 852 in 1952 and 8521 (calendar), it demands of efficiency, by taking action almost enough to make the watch keep running.

The series life there are many models compete with 8531,8541 species, such as R-1570, O-561 Etermatic (ie 2892), Eta 2824 predecessor models, JLC-883 (6), etc., are not on the transmission efficiency has a special inking or deal with, because of little significance in practical applications, after pick up the stansteel watch no matter the second hand run or not , all first to do is self-winding the refining (rotation of 40 below), so watch enough to run with energy, to maintain its stability and show the accuracy. Woodpeckers of the structures has been validated 50 years, not necessarily money than his fragile or easy to wear. Watch used after wear 25 years the different is meaningless; IWC emphasis on the permanent supply of permanent service, replace the original manufacturer of the new Woodpecker without problems.

November 3, 2010

IWC Ingenieur Automatic CLS 55 AMG Limited Edition

Filed under: Ingenieur — Tags: , — Iwcer @ 6:07 pm

In 2006, IWC in the celebration of IWC Ingenieur (Engineer series of quartz watches) 50th anniversary party, showing the CLS 55 AMG IWC Ingenieur, it is the Mercedes-Benz professional tuner AMG and IWC in October 2004 set about the cooperative work. IWC Ingenieur AMG watch announce together with coupe.

IWC Ingenieur Automatic CLS 55 AMG, only 55 produced, especially made for the CLS 55 AMG IWC Ingenieur owners, used the instrument dial of disc design with a red second hand, and the AMG logo was engraved on the back of the dial . Lightweight with titanium hard and difficult to scratch, wear, not easy to allergic on the skin, mild color, showing elegant metallic finish. These models are equipped with a robust high-precision movement, water resistant to 120m.

November 2, 2010

Worthy Collection of IWC Tourbillon Watch

Filed under: Grande Complication — Tags: , , — Iwcer @ 8:26 pm

It should be one of the most complicated watch in the world. This design of the watch really complicated, Because the 125th anniversary cerlebration of this IWC company so design this commemorate watch. Especially in the classic 7750 (excluding auto) plus time-based recovery on the core needle chronograph funtion, and design together with the tourbillon, two cylindrical in the part of the needle chasing and rectangular ruby of the needle chasing make its durability are significantly improved; The part of calendar is very unique and useful figures show year, it do not need to return to the factory for calibrating until 2100, also you can only against the crown at the ordinary time.

It’s minute repeater is an innovative design, whole components can be removed to facilitate maintenance; the most special tourbillon is the only high-frequency balance wheel, and cancle the deck, fixed by the bottom of the tourbillon components, the whole components is made of titanium alloy, weight is not more than 0.3 grams, which makes the operation of tourbillon more smoothly and save the power consumption and improved shock resistance、durability and accuracy. In addition, it is quite particular about the grinding movement, all splints in the movement are engraved with exquisite patterns, screws and gong are made of blue spring steel. the whole watch really reflects the perfect process of IWC.

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