IWC's flagship

I landed in HK a few hours ago and found an opportunity to make a pilgimage to the flagship boutique. In terms of IWC pilgrimages, this one ranks next to Schaffhausen. Whilst I was there, the new catalogue arrived. I asked my host during the tour and he said they were still waiting. As I was leaving, it arrived. It should keep me occupied during the wait for the flight home tomorrow night. Boston and NYC next week.

The growing range of special editions was the most notable feature of my tour. Of the new Portuguese range, only the hand wound models had arrived.

I apologise for the poor snaps.

ZZ top Ingenieur

A special edition limited to AsPac. Nice brown dial.

I couldn''''t capture the brown dial

Perfect for Mrs E.

My first opportunity to see this new line

I prefer the black dial with white sub-dial

ZZ again

Thank you very much

The pics are just fine, they show a lot.

The new hand-wound Portuguese are really nice. You must see them to know for sure, but I would go for the white dialled one, although the black one looks great too.

The AsPac is a 3227? Remarkable, how new was it?

Any more news about the special editions you saw?

Kind regards,
Paul, wearing steel VC Pilot's watch: did you see this one in rose gold?

Not poor at all, nice pics indeed. Thank you

for sharing!

Have a safe journey on the way back.

Nice pieces from the Inge and Portuguese lines.

Regards,

roberto

When are you in NYC? I'm therer two days....

next week. Send me an email.

Bill

Thanks for the report...

and pics! The ZZ Top Ingy looked interesting...I like the brown dial!

Best regards,
Jim

Glad you had time to see these....

You are probably the first Forum member with a new catalog.

Excellent report Ralph thank you (nt)

That brown 3227 looks interesting.

Hi Paul.

I had an hour in the boutique and didn't get an opportunity to spend as much time as I would have liked. I had a dinner engagement. I don't know the full details of the 3227 LE watch. It just looked very seductive. The LEs all had formal numbering ***/100. The point is that the boutiques have considerably more SKUs than the brochure. They need the LEs to play the role of a showcase and still compete against pricing in the nearby stores. I have been rather critical of LEs in the past but without them, the Flagship store and similar boutiques could not survive. It's a very smart way of stabilising pricing.

Kind regards,

Ralph (wearing a CFI with full antimagnetic protection. Display backs simply won't cope with my travel schedule)

Nice report!

Thanks Rave!

I like the Ingenieur. It would be even better with an outsized date.

Happy Landings,
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Isobars.

Thanks Rave. Nice line-up!

Thanks Rave!

That looks like a very interesting place to visit!

Kind regards,

Cinq

Sweet, looks a little familiar, lol!! nt

nt

IWC's flagship

Rave,

When you mention the new line, the Portugese manual winds, so you have a reference number for the Black face, with the the White sub seconds?

Bear