how many parts make up the 8011x movements

It is fully in-house, but i've never seen this being published anywhere.

My guess ....

Counting parts within any watch movement can be tricky since there are many components which come installed as one part but in reality are made up of several parts. A regulator or a balance shock unit is normally considered as one part but in reality has four separate parts.

I don't recall seeing any official count of how many parts make up the 8011x movements but my guess is a few hundred. I'm not sure if more parts have a significance to the performance of any timepiece.

Regards,
Jack Freedman

it doesn't i agree, but...

It's always interesting to note - I always wondered if the number of parts can give away the type of mechanism behind. All high-end complications always specify the no. of parts, especially when it's in-house. Somehow, i haven't seen that in IWC's in-house movements.

not sure I agree...

when you write "All high-end complications always specify the no. of parts". I can think of many that do not.

Also, I'm not sure that the number is meaningful --actually, less parts can be better, especially given that the best designs often don't super-impose modules on top of one another but rather use integrated construction.

And also counting parts is often a game. For example, when there a rotor is jeweled with, say, 6 jewels, that often is counted as one since each serves the same function.

Regards,
Michael

not sure I agree...

I have to agree with you there. I was just always curious. Thanks a lot for that. :)