The highly efficient winding system is a refined version of the 50000-calibre family with a bidirectional Pellaton pawl-winding system. Two barrels provide an impressive 7 days’ power reserve. The winding pawls and the automatic wheel are made of black ceramic while the rotor bearing is made of white ceramic. These extremely hard high-tech materials make the automatic winding system practically wear-free. The indexless balance with a frequency of 4 hertz (28,800 beats per hour) and the Breguet spring guarantee maximum precision. The design and finish of the movement was also considerably enhanced. The proportions of the rotor and the inset “Probus Scafusia” gold medallion are noticeably slimmer.
Calibre Families
Calibre Family 32000With the 32000-calibre family, IWC expands its range of IWC-manufactured automatic movements. For these rugged and reliable movements, and for the first time ever, IWC has used components made of silicon.
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Calibre Families
Calibre Family 50000The 50000-calibre family features the efficient Pellaton pawl-winding system with a 7-day power reserve and a Breguet spring for maximum precision.
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Calibre Family 59000The large, precise, hand-wound movements in the 59000-calibre family have an 8-day power reserve, but could theoretically run for 9 days. The extra day in reserve ensures that the movement maintains as constant a driving torque as possible and continues to run precisely.
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Calibre Family 69000Movements from the 69000-calibre family are used in all IWC watches that require a precise, robust and high-performance chronograph movement. The chronograph is a classic column-wheel design and takes the energy it needs from a bidirectional pawl-winding system similar to the Pellaton mechanism.
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Calibre Family 82000The IWC-manufactured 82000 calibre ties in with the tradition of high-quality automatic movements from IWC. It is fitted with the highly efficient IWC Pellaton automatic winding system, which uses both directions of the rotor to wind the mainspring.
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Calibre Family 89000The 89000-calibre family includes powerful chronograph movements with flyback function, which are used, for example, for the big digital date & month displays.
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Calibre Families
Calibre Family 94000Hand-wound with two barrels incl. the constant-force tourbillon, the astronomical module in the Portugieser Sidérale Scafusia & the digital Pallweber display.
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Calibre Family 98000The 98000-calibre family is ideally suited for use in large hand-wound Portugieser models & are also found in models featuring a minute repeater and tourbillon.
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The Watch Mainspring - all wound upBefore a mechanical watch movement can start moving, it needs an energy source to drive it. That energy source is the watch mainspring. Find out more.
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