Just curious --what's your first IWC?

I thought everyone would be interested to learn about everyone else's first IWC. So --tell us what it is, why you got it and when you got it,

To make this even more interesting, I'll randomly pick three contributors to this string, and award a prize. All prize entries need to be posted here by Monday, April 19, on or before 6 p,m, Schaffhausen time.

Mine? It was a ref. 3706 Fliegerchronograph that I bought in 1995. I saw it in a catalog and went to a dealer. he didn't some other IWC mdoels that i also liked in stock and --voila!- I was magically transported to the world of IWC. For 15 years now it has hasn't stopped.

Regards --and good luck,
Michael

Ref 5441 Portugierser Jubilee Rose Gold.

Upon retiring I fulfilled a lifetime dream >>>

acquiring a precious, luxury, RG mechanical watch. My wife actually led me the the display case and the beautiful RG 5001 on display at my AD in August, 2006. I had been focused on a RG Breitling for Bentley, but fortunately she prevailed and I have not turned back.

Here is the picture I took of my first IWC. Today, it is on its way back from Schaffhausen at a bit of a spa treatment. I can't wait to put it back into rotation.

The next RG IWC that is important to me is my 5022 PPC which I bought the day of my daughter's wedding.

Good topic. I look forward to many replies.

Bill

My first IWC.

An IWC with special meaning....acquired for my daughter''s wedding.

A special Mark XII. My father gave it to me

after he wore it several years. I had looked at IWCs in the catalogues for years, but couldn't afford one. So I guess my love affair with the marque started early, but finally I had one of the classics!
Still have it, still one of my favorites!

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What else???

Titanium quartz Porsche Design Ultra Sportivo

I bought this watch at the end of my summer holiday in 1989 while travelling home, in Chur, the capital of Graubünden, Switzerland. It was my dream brand, my mother having a small ladies watch of IWC. It had all the characteristics I liked at the time: small and thin, titanium (anti allergic), quartz (accurate) and a date. At that moment I had an Omega Seamaster De Ville for years, quite a good watch. The new watch felt like betrayal, as the Omega was a gift from my parents for my graduation, and a watch was more or less supposed to last a lifetime. Certainly to my parents the new watch didn't look much like an improvement, and they disliked the red seconds hand. Still, this watch was the slow start of a not yet ending love affair. The watch doesn't run at the moment, so I don't wear it. Occasionally I try it on, and am amazed by its small size: how could I ever have chosen it. But it is quite cute, it still has the original domed crown that was later replaced by IWC by a more practical normal crown for this model. But the original crown looks much nicer, IWC is not always right.

Kind regards,
Paul, wearing steel VC Portuguese

My first darling IWC

St Exupery watch (with power reserv, steel)

The watch was in his post-box (not opened in my retailer's shop !). I was the first to see it !

The second one is thr RG 5001

The third one... for this Xmas !

(sorry for my bad english)

In June 2006 I visited the IWC factory with a ...

group of watch enthusiasts. It was in one of the conference rooms when I fell in love with the watch pictured here. I kept staring at this picture of that watch on my wrist and upon my return made the purchase from my AD. It was the first of six, soon to be seven IWC watches in my collection.

The Catalyst

It's a little more complex for me...

I ordered a Portuguese auto ref.500107 in october 2005, as it was (and still is) a very attracting watch for me. But, by the time I was waiting for it, I made some visits to the AD and once saw a Spitfire chrono ref.3706 (nov.2005). So I picked it up instantly, to calm this intense desire.

So the first I got is the Spitfire, but the first I bought was the Portuguese.

Here is a picicture of them, with another watch I own.

Regards,
Jean

Watch on a lazy sunday afternoon

More or less, this is what really happened...

More or less, this is what really happened...

I started collecting watches starting from my ref. 371404.

Picture really tells the whole story as I was absently looking at the web, some time ago, when I was caught by the beauty of this watch.

I wasn't used to wear watches because of a problem on my wrists caused by my passion for tennis.

When I saw this portoguese, I simply couldn't bear all that beauty, who knows what really happened but, from never wearing a watch to become passionate about watches just took me few days, as I ran to the AD to buy the watch.

That's why I feel simpathy for IWC, it gave me a sort of imprinting I'll be always get linked to.

• No animals were harmed during the making of this picture, the only animal is me...

Regards,

roberto

Ingenieur Chrono Alarm (ref. 3805) nt

3706 Spitfire

Saw it in one of the duty free shops while on holiday in Jamaica - loved it and had to have it......start of a slippery slope!

BP 5004 - June 2006

Aloha all!

I had three in-hand opportunities to purchase a BP 5002 but I couldn't pull the trigger. At the grand re-opening of the local AD here on the island, I attended the Panerai function and saw the BP 5004 that no one purchased the night before at the IWC function.

I fell in love with it immediately and purchased it!

Tracy (Honolulu)

My first IWC was this one ........

At the time I was collecting another brand. The year 1999 I was offered this by the seller of another watch in which I had an interest. He asked if I collected pilot watches and shown me the Mark X1. I knew absolutely nothing about IWC and so during the following day I made a couple of telephone calls. Both of my friends said if I didn't want it then I should buy it for them.
And so my interest in IWC was born. I went straight back and bought it . It eventually went to Schaffhausen for some minor work, new hands and perspex The more I read the more I wanted to know and very soon found the IWC forum which I have visited almost daily since.
Since the first watch I have had 46 different IWC watches and still retain around 15.
My latest is 3227 01 followed by the VC Da Vinci both of which I use for daily wear.

My Mark X1 ? It is now in the safe hands of another well known IWC military collector.
Regards
Ivan
iwcforme

My first one was this ...

mecaquartz SL - and it was - is everybody sitting down? - a gift from a friend in Leeds, UK.

Cheers
Brane

... in 2005.