Do you remember this car from the eighties ?
It was a Lancia Thema with the 8.32 Ferrari V8 motor. It was a mix of two brands.
Well, my latest pocketwatch in the collection is something similar...
It is a Bergland pocketwatch, but with a calibre made by IWC, a rare cal 983.
Pocketwatch collectors know very well the cal 982, but the cal 983 is a rare bird. Only made in very limited numbers.
I did a bit of research in the archives and found these quotes in older posts,
"calibre 983 which has been created during their main crisis - featuring flat hairspring and KIF-Spirofin regulating system as well known at the 889-family. To seperate this 983 from all others - the movement has been rose-gold plated. As far as I know this movement must be one of the rarest IWC-PW-movements due to very small production."
"The 983 has been a "cheap" version of the 982 with the same bridges and "cotes de geneve" - the balance has been a non-screwed one with flat haispring and KIF-Spirofin regulator instead of the original design. Unfortunatly I don't have pics - the movement itself has been rose-gold-plated. According to Jürgen King - the development manager at this time - those movements have been sold at the "crisis"-time to german watch companies to produced this typical kind of german "hunters"-pocketwatches"
both quotes from Richard Habring, at that time employee with IWC.
And from Kurt Klaus :
"The balance is without compensation screws and the balance spring is flat. These are different from cal. 982. The idea was to produce 2 pocket watches with cal. 953 and 983 for a cheaper price, during a period that nobody wanted a pocket watch and nobody was thinking yet of a Portugieser"
