As the name suggests the International Watch Company IWC Schaffhausen is a truly global brand. Founded by a US watchmaker and businessman Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868 in Schaffhausen, IWC Schaffhausen's aim was to produce mechanical watches to traditional Swiss standard using progressive American techniques.
Now IWC Schaffhausen employs over 650 people, including 180 of the worlds highest skilled watchmakers. In the 19th Century, IWC Schaffhausen demonstrated a passion for innovation through pocket watches such as the Pallweber which had a revolutionary digital hour and minute display, and by the end of the century IWC Schaffhausen were producing their first wristwatches.
From durable everyday pieces and sports watches to complexities of Haute Horlogerie, IWC are, as the name suggests, world renowned for their prodigious craftsmanship.
Since 1868 the IWC Schaffhausen have been crafting peerless timepieces. Blending stunning design with precision engineering across a diverse range of watches.
I discovered this online: omega Ref. No. 116618 Watches European Watch Co., Buy Sell Trade-inCall me nuts, and I will be happy to stand corrected, but that watch looks fake. The printing on the dial is VERY faint, and the cyclops doesn't magnify right to me.So, omegaistas...what's your verdict?........
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Some more pictures of my Leonard Tricompax 7750.
Just got this in a trade, here are the other pictures I promised.........
George Daniels - Co-Axial Escapement
Hi all,I've just been "reprimanded" on another forum for suggesting that this could have been the greatest horological develepment of recent times. Seemingly there are concerns that this innovation leads to more regular maintenence visits. Considering many laud George Daniels as the greatest watchmaker of the 20th Century - and add to this that the co-axial escapement is seen as his greatest achie........
