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Pre-Owned
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
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  3. Ingenieur Ingenieur
  4. Pilots Watches Pilots Watches
  5. Portofino Portofino
  6. Portugieser Portugieser
  7. Tribute to Pallweber Edition Tribute to Pallweber Edition
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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 Double Chrono IW371803 244416
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Double Chrono
IW371803

Box
Papers
Year 2010
€3,185
IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar IW503301 244314

IWC
Portugieser Perpetual Calendar
IW503301

Box
Papers
Year 2012
€20,135
IWC Aquatimer IW356810 279413

IWC
Aquatimer
IW356810

Box
Papers
Year 2012
€2,510
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389101 257699

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389101

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€6,875
IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar IW502218 283393

IWC
Portugieser Perpetual Calendar
IW502218

Box
Papers
Year 2015
€17,280
IWC Portugieser Chrono IW371620 269452

IWC
Portugieser Chrono
IW371620

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€8,055
IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar IW502308 245168
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Perpetual Calendar
IW502308

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€11,495
IWC Aquatimer IW329005 281815

IWC
Aquatimer
IW329005

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€2,950
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW387905 266306
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW387905

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€9,430
IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar IW502213 244075

IWC
Portugieser Perpetual Calendar
IW502213

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€13,105
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW377903 244289

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW377903

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€5,720
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389103 253110
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389103

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€9,850
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389001 270501

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389001

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€7,010
IWC Pilot's UTC IW326103 244092
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's UTC
IW326103

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€7,815
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389106 267235

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389106

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€8,765

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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