Story
The Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Edition “Woodland” is the first IWC watch featuring a case in newly engineered, dark green ceramic. Because the color changes during the furnace process, it takes countless trials and a lot of experience to define the right mixture.
Read the storyA bouquet of ceramic colors
Perpetual Calendar
IWC’s legendary perpetual calendar was developed by Kurt Klaus in the 1980s and has since continuously been refined and improved. It is mechanically programmed to recognize the different month lengths and the leap years and will run without manual intervention until 2100.
Inspiration
Inspiration
Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Edition “Lake Tahoe”
A subdued white with a mysterious shimmer: the ceramic color “Lake Tahoe” is inspired by the “Service Dress White” uniform of the US Navy, but also by the contrasting winter landscape with the snow-covered peaks around the largest freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada.
Event
Event
Polaris Dawn
The Polaris Dawn commercial human spaceflight mission, the first of three spaceflights planned as part of the Polaris Program, has successfully returned to Earth. Four space-themed IWC Schaffhausen chronographs, which traveled to space with the crew, will be auctioned in December by Christie’s to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
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