Hi everybody,
My old-schooled father picked up a vintage IWC from an antique shop as a gift
for me. I def appreciate his thoughts but still, I want to see if he got a
fair deal on the watch. It says it's cal.171 and ref.1220.
Hope that you can shed some light on this one! Thank you so much and hope you
have a good day!
K.
You have received a lovely IWC watch. From a very thoughtful father.
Enjoy it and wear it in good health.
This Forum does not allow links to for-sale sites so I cannot comment on the
comparison.
thank you for the reply first!
Sorry I was not aware of this, I just thought it might be helpful. It was just
the same I found on the internet. I have taken it down. Hope it's ok?
Thank You
If you have specific questions regarding age etc - if you supply the serial
number, we will be happy to date it for you.
We do not generally discuss values of watches.
I recently also bought a ref.1220 too!
Dear Carmen and Alexander
the IWC Cal. 171 is one of the movements not designed by IWC itself, but
bought in from other makers. Especially ultra slim IWC ladies watches from the
late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s have such movements in it. The IWC Cal. 171 is in
the very end a Frederic Piguet Cal. 21, 9''' in diameter, 1.75mm in height.
Patek and other well known brands have used it for slim ladies watches as
well. It was regularly sold in gold cases.
Other than the IWC movements which are basically an ETA movement IWC
movements deriving from Frederic Piguet or Jaeger LeCoultre movements are
Haute Horlogerie. Unfortunately only few collectors collect ladies watches. So
the price depends on the look: They are bought to wear them, not bought as
collectors items.
My wife wears a ladies Ingenieur, having as well a Piguet movement, but an
automatic and more sturdy one than the Piguet 171.
Regards
Th. Koenig
Thomas, amazed to get to know what I did not know. There is my answer to my
question - what were those "ultra thin's".
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
@ Mark
At the same time, I was looking for details in old Watch magazines. Here are
some scans.
Perhaps it helps a little bit ?!
Hebe, thanks for this. I had no idea of the use of that Piquet movement!
Just an modern example for using very flat movements around 2012 is this
PIAGET-based movement:
Piaget 830(8),IWC Cal. 62060.
Mechanical hand-wound
Functions : Hours, Minutes
Technical features : Balance with screws (that is, it's a free-sprung balance)
Power reserve (in hours) : Approx. 61
Frequency (vph) : 21,600
Frequency (Hz) : 3
Diameter (lignes) : 12.00
Diameter (mm) : 26.8
Number of jewels : 19
Thickness (mm) : 2.5
Number of components : 131
