HOW DID YOUR FASCINATION FOR MECHANICAL WATCHES START?

Hi John, thanks for sharing your story and welcome to IWC Forum!

I imagine we all have our story to tell and it's always interesting to know what draws someone into the world of IWC!

Cheers!

My first pocket watch was Roskopf 'Wille Freres 30353', I bought from a collector but the watch was not in working order, so I decided to repair it although I'm not a watch maker (I'm an accountant), I learn all the mechanical stuffs from internet and also from an expert watch maker, finally it was fixed and runs like a locomotive! From there, I love mechanical watches, especially an antiques hand winding. Recently I've bought a LEp calibre 65 - 19lig H6, dating around 1919 in 0.800 silver IWC case. I'm enjoy with it especially on the precision of time, it was as precise as digital watch.

Hello ! This my first comment in the IWC Forum.

I don't really know how my fascination for mechanical watches started. I know that my first watch as a child was a mechanical one. From then I had mechanical and quartz watches. I remember that when I started to work, I wanted to buy a good watch. So I decided to learn a little bit about watches (and to calculate what was possible with my budget) and a I got an automatic Tag Heuer, that I still have in working condition twenty years later. I have several mechanical and quartz watches, I have a different uses for them. For example, if I need a compass and an altimeter, because I go for a ride to the mountains or to the beach, I have a quartz watch which gives that information among others. But I prefer mechanical watches. Recently, I discovered a passion for IWC, a brand I knew from my years as a student at the university, because a Professor had a beautiful Portugieser. A few months ago, I visited with my wife an IWC retailer, just for curiosity (in fact, I was more interested on Panerai). I spotted a terrific Ingenieur Mission Earth, the one with rubber bracelet. I really like rubber bracelets. I didn't buy it at the moment, but I made some research, until I decided. This is my watch:

I didn't stop there. I travel a lot, so I wanted a Worldtimer. I read about the Pilot Timezoner and about de Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer. The retailer didn't have the any one of them and I was told they were unable to get the Portugieser Worldtimer. So, I was about to buy the Pilot Timezoner they had in exhibition. But the odds were on my side, and I had a travel to Switzerland, were I found the Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer. I got it (Yes!):

And I even have a useful leather watch roll to travel with them:

What can I say ? Do I stop here ? Should I ?

Best regards,

Antonio

Can you tell me which model is this watch. What year is it? I can not find.

We build watches that keep time, we build watches that keep time forever yet we are mortal. We build timeless watches because the hope is always to exceed and break limits

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Hi Gentleman,

My passion for mechanical watches started due to a personal and deep mental reflections. I was once told that mechanical watches were completely useless "why would anyone need a watch that is precise to the second for 1000's of year?" I explained that this is humanity in it's best form. Humans have evolved because we have always superseded expectations. Obviously we will never live long enough to witness our IWC loose time but that is the beauty of it. It's the hope that we keep. It's like have a Ferrari that can achiever 340kmph, we might never hit that speed but it's good to know that we could. As humans we should always push above what people expect of us.

Best Regards,

It's about one month since I became a happy owner of my new BIG PILOT'S WATCH EDITION "LE PETIT PRINCE" ref. IW500916, midnight blue dial... Why mechanical ? I have many electronic watches as everybody else (iPhone, car watch, computer - you name it...) but they have no beating heart. Mechanical watches such as my new IWC Pilot's watches have that feeling of history, development, hand work of skilfull and talented men and women. They are not as precise as some atomic watches so it is a plus from some point of view. It reminds me that I'm the one who has control, not the time.

I have always been drawn to well-made mechanical gadgets like good cameras, but a fine watch is a well-made mechanical gadget that goes anywhere with yiu.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please excuse my clumsy typographical error.
Regards,
Jim

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When I was 6 and began to go to school I borrowed every day the watch of my
father or mother (former an Optima, other a Ruhla, see both on the attached
photo) just not to be late. When 13 (in 1974) my uncle gave me a Renis Geneve
day-date automatic (could be some ETA 2836 or similar), from then on it was a
slippery slope
:)