The IWC Pilot’s Replica Watch Timezoner Chronograph 3950

I’m not sure the timing of the new Pilot’s collection was coincidental or not, but if so, IWC is quite fortunate that its strongest family of watches was ready to be launched during one of the most challenging years in recent memory for the industry. The IWC Pilot’s Replica Watches are true icons, and the latest crop is especially strong. In addition to the usual time-only Mark models, the bold chronographs, and the Big Pilots, the manufacture spent the two years working hard to make sure the Timezoner Chronograph 3950 would be part of the 2016 lineup. Its a big part of the new collection, both figuratively and literally.

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IWC Replica Watches

A brand new entry in the Pilot’s collection, the Timezoner is IWC’s Replica Watches maiden attempt at integrating particularly user-friendly GMT/dual time zone complication into its collections. A little background: the bezel-set GMT system in the Timezoner was developed by watchmaker Michael Vogt, who launched a brand built around the system called Vogard in 2002. Vogt showed Vogard’s first completed watch at Basel in 2014, but sold the patent to IWC Replica Watches shortly thereafter. At the time of the patent transfer, Vogt issued a statement saying, ““As a niche manufacturer and watch atelier we do not have the financial and structural resources to fully exploit the potential of the Timezoner technology … I am very pleased that we found one of leading brands with the power to further develop the Timezoner and to establish it on a world wide level.”

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IWC Fake Watches

After two years and some in-house refinements, the complication is finally ready for customers, and it’s been paired with one of the manufacture’s column-wheel chronograph movements, the automatic caliber 89760. It first debuted back in January at SIHH, but we finally got our hands on one and decided to dig deep into exactly how it works and whether or not it’s a useful interpretation of the complication.What’s pretty great about this particular dual time zone complication is that while it’s brand spanking new,it’s incredibly user-friendly and intuitive. Local time is set to a new time zone by pressing down on two opposite sides of the bezel and turning it until the desired time zone locks into the 12 o’clock position. That’s all there is to it, really. Both the hour hand and the red 24-hour hand will follow the bezel, jumping in one-hour increments to reveal the time at the chosen destination – minutes still need to be adjusted via the crown in the unlikely event that you’re traveling to a half-hour or 45-minute time zone.
This bezel-adjusted system is an exciting piece of equipment, and I can see why IWC Fake Watches was quick to snap it up from Vogard. The bezel roates in either direction, meaning any mistake can be quickly fixed. Using it instantly feels like second nature, and ultimately it makes traveling a little bit less of a headache, especially during same-day trips across Europe.

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Cheap IWC Replica

Another concern with the Timezoner is that it’s massive. The watch measures 45mm across, but that’s not even the real problem here. It’s thickness that’s worrisome. At 16mm thick, it is not an easy watch to wear, and the thickness will tend to make it more vulnerable to knocks. If there’s one group of watch collectors that’s particularly forgiving when it comes to case sizes though, it’s IWC collectors. The company’s Pilot Cheap IWC Replica range has always leaned toward very big watches. This makes practical sense for a real pilot – you can get a quick and clear read of the time – but for most of us it’s a style choice rather than a technical necessity.

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Replica Watches

There’s no question that IWC makes a lot of Pilot’s Fake Watches that are much more comfortable than the Timezoner, including the Mark XVIII and the Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36mm. But I think this is an interesting starting point for a cool piece of practical technology, and I hope future iterations will be more like those smaller, more wearable models. I’m curious to know how far down IWC Replica Watches could bring the size of a watch with this dual time zone functionality if the chronograph were to be left out, creating something simpler.

The IWC Da Vinci Tourbillon Chronograph Replica Watches

The Da Vinci Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph is one of the flagship models in the revamped-for-2017 Da Vinci collection. The watch features a flying tourbillon, a retrograde date display, and a flyback chronograph, all powered by a self-winding in-house movement with several interesting technical features. It’s also got all the aesthetic hallmarks of the new Replica Watches collection too, so let’s take a closer look.

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IWC Replica Watches

One of the more interesting aspects of the watch is the tourbillon – this is a flying tourbillon, which is fitted with a stop-seconds feature, to allow to-the-second accurate setting of the watch. It’s a peculiarity of the tourbillon that the presence of the cage has historically tended to discourage watchmakers from putting a stop-seconds mechanism in tourbillon wristwatches – of course part of that had to do with the fact that until well after the IWC Replica Watches you could have counted the number of tourbillon wristwatches on the fingers of one hand. The problem is that a stop-seconds complication usually works by means of a small lever that presses on the balance wheel when you pull out the crown, but such a mechanism would be blocked by the IWC Fake Watches.

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Replica Watches

If you want to buy into national stereotypes, you might say it’s not surprising that two of the companies that have figured out a way around this problem with a stop-seconds tourbillon are German, and in fact from both from Glashütte: Moritz Grossman and A. Lange & Söhne. Schaffhausen isn’t in Germany but it’s surrounded on three sides by the Cheap IWC Replica. The lever and escape wheel are silicon.Initially, the watch will be offered in red gold only, and on a Santoni strap.

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IWC Fake Watches

Having had a chance to handle the watch and have it on the wrist, I’m comfortable saying it’s made a very positive initial impression. It’s certainly sized and styled to impress at 44mm across and 17mm thick, but the stop-seconds for the IWC Replica Watches tourbillon is really technically interesting (and, though not unique any more, certainly unusual) and that, combined with the retrograde date and flyback chronograph, gives you a watch with a feel of substantive technical achievement and solid, unostentatious luxury, which is very much in line with the Da Vinci family in general, and with IWC in particular.

 Da Vinci Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph
Da Vinci Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph

The 2017 IWC Replica Ingenieur Collection

It was all about the Da Vinci at the start of the year for Replica Watches, with a new automatic, a new Tourbillon chronograph, and a new perpetual calendar, among other watches. But the Swiss watch company has quickly switched gears and has is enriching its new collection with four new references in its technically driven Ingenieur collection, all in one go.

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Replica Watches

The new watches were introduced this morning in the UK, during the Goodwood 75th Members Meeting, an event which IWC Replica Watches has been a regular partner of for some years now.

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IWC Replica Watches

Last year, the company used the event to introduce their new in-house chronograph, Calibre 69370, in a new-look Ingenieur which borrowed some iconic traits from the original model ref. 666A, made back in 1955. IWC Fake Watches added a couple of special editions, including the “Rudolf Caracciola” a few months later. This year, the company is expanding its offering with four new models, including three new versions of the chronograph. The new models range from a competitive stainless steel automatic three-hander which looks even more like a vintage ref. 666A, to a high-end perpetual calendar.

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IWC Fake Watches

Here are the fours models presented by IWC: the Ingenieur Automatic, the Ingenieur Chronograph, the Ingenieur Chronograph Sport, and the Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month. Several case materials will be offered for each model. The three-hand model with date is 40mm x 10.5mm, by the way, so it should be a great candidate for a daily wear watch. The perpetual calendar uses Cheap IWC Replica digital perpetual calendar date and month display, and Ingenieur Chronograph Sport is a limited edition of 500 pieces, in a 44mm titanium case, and features a soft iron inner case for protection against magnetism as well.

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Cheap IWC Replica

The new Ingenieur will be available from £3,950 for the simplest model, to £15,750 for the most complicated. We’ll be getting our hands on these watches very soon and will be back with more information on each model once that happens.