3508 IWC Ingenieur 500000 A/m
If you’ve been shopping for a toaster recently, you’ll know most people buy a Cuisinart. Alternatively, you could buy a 600 USD Wolf…
3211 IWC Yacht Club II Jumbo Automatic in Yellow Gold
If you’d hopped in a Delorean and accidentally found yourself in 1970s Geneva, you’d struggle to find a Aquanaut. Shop all you like,…
3705 IWC Ceramic Fliegerchronograph
For two years, I drove a black on black Defender 110 (the old one) everywhere. This is not a normal look in the…
3805 IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Alarm
Without doubt, this is one of the most curious IWCs to ever wear the name Ingenieur. The 3805 is a mecha-quartz chronograph with…
3311 IWC Quartz Yacht Club II
A circle within a stop-sign within an elongated hexagon, the Yacht Club II is an acquired taste. I’ve previously described it as Genta-designed…
3536 IWC Aquatimer 2000 Steel
If the 3536 were a person, it would be a Michael Fassbender type. I know you think I’m talking nonsense, hear me out:…
3505 IWC Ingenieur SL White ‘Graph Paper’ Dial
This is one of those rare occasions where a watch feels familiar, but isn’t. The ref. 3505 is an Ingenieur very like the…
1812 IWC Aquatimer
For every run-of-the-mill Aquatimer you’d see at a generic airport-based IWC boutique, there is one which is incredibly interesting. The line has a…
Saab-Signed IWC Mark XII
Saab: one of many names, or brands, that you just don’t expect to tangent anywhere near watchmaking. TAG partnering with Porsche makes sense,…
5240 IWC Portuguese Minute Repeater
Discretion is something of a lost art to much of modern watchmaking. In many ways, a relatively thin, time-only minute repeater could be…
Bundeswehr-Issued IWC Porsche Design Ocean 2000
When I say integrated sports watch, you almost certainly imagine a RO, Nautilus, or Overseas. You almost certainly do not imagine a Laureato,…
3740 IWC Mecha-Quartz Fliegerchronograph
For neo-vintage collectors, this somewhat polarizing fliegerchronograph has few equivalents. It’s an IWC that hits all the pleasure receptors where modern watches often…
3521 IWC Ingenieur
Despite all the admiration, scholarship, and even Jack Forster’s article in the last year, the 3521 remains an alternative and yet-to-be-fully-appreciated modern classic.…
IWC 3705 Ceramic Fliegerchronograph
Yeah, alright, I’ve featured it before and this is probably my teacher’s pet amongst all the neo-vintage IWC lot. I know it’s not…