Just curious --what's your first IWC?

They were considerably cheaper then ,-)) (nt)

My trip to Switzerland....

in the summer 2008 turned out to be the genesis of my IWC "consciousness." My Swiss brother-in-law told me about a watch company in the German-speaking part of the country that was started by an American. He had a recent IWC catalog and I went through it cover to cover...and I was hooked! When I returned to Texas, I searched out an AD and bought a Spitfire Mark XVI...the watch I am currently wearing for my travel to Seattle and then to Italy (volcano allowing). Within six months I bought two more IWC's and can claim with clear conviction that I am hopelessly enmeshed in everything IWC...and enjoying every minute with these wonderful watches!

Best regards,
Jim

Just curious --what's your first IWC?

My first IWC was a Pilot's Watch, I always liked the hinged clasp on the strap that has a very carefully engineered feel

Just curious --what's your first IWC?

A Mark XV that has a great dial for my working life...

St. Exupery chrono in 2007

I was looking for something to replace a worn-out Seiko kinetic. Some web searching later, I found pictures of the St. Ex chrono, fell in love and spent some time trying to find one. Never looked back.

Ross

Hey Ross! Is that a weathervane?

Isobars.

Ref 3330 - Porsche Design Ultra Sportivo

My first IWC was a Porsche Design Ultra-Sportivo, titanium on a rubber strap, the first version with the cross-hairs on the dial. I spent all of the money earned at a summer job in 1984, the watch had just come out and I happened to be the first in Hamburg who bought it. Loved that watch and no other for 17 years, until I started visiting the IWC website.

First IWC watch...

...in collection was Spitfire Mark XVI with leather strap, purchased in Feb 2009 (it still feels like we're in honeymoon period:))

Main reason for purchase was to get a dressier looking watch, and beeing always attracted to IWC, this watch was a great match.

Even with more watches in collection, Spitfire gets a lot of wrist time, as with few different straps it can change the look and fit perfectly for any dressy or casual/sporty occasion.

Rudo

Mine was BP SS, perfect (nt)

Mine was a Mark XV in 2002....

Just curious --what's your first IWC?

In 2000, it was a Portuguese Chrono a gift from my lovely wife.

Mark XI in 1990

I bought the watch as an auction return by Dr.Crott auctions. I looked for a rlx prince and came back with the two. I'fell in love' with the dial of Mark XI. That was ' the beginning of a friendship' :-).

Hajo

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My first IWC - Pilots Chrono 371701

My first IWC was the Pilots Chrono 371701.

Even today approaching 4 years since I received it as a gift from my girlfriend it still holds such great fondness in my collection.
When we went into my AD on my birthday I was instructed that I could have any watch I wanted (she was paying).
If I was starting my collection again today - and given the same offer - I would also chose wisely and even select the same watch again.

I wonder later next month if I get the choice to chose another one for my birthday. I better get prepared - just in case.

Andrew

Posted by Andrew Thomas on 21.06.2006 at 13:24:04

New Pilot Chrono Automatic

Like Koen I have also became a member of the IWC collectors family on 27th May to celebrate my 34th birthday. Is it normal to be so nervous when wearing one.....I am always scared I hit it against something......
I was trying to figure out how best to test the accuracy. I was using teletext each day......but is that accurate enough to be used as a reference point. Perhaps a watch-accuracy-callibrator on the IWC homepage with a life size feature of an IWC watch (a different one each day) would be the best reference point to check accuracy and also re-set the watch if needed.

I would love to show you a photo......how do I download one to the forum ?

Andrew

A dive watch

The beginning of my IWC enthusiasm is connected to diving. After many years of snorkeling I started diving in 1984. My first dive watch at that time was a Mortima - a rather cheap although mechanical watch. But for a boy of course it was precious and I was proud of it. It only ran for some years and I guess I sped up it's degration by usually winding it too hard. I still have it because a lot of memories are connected to it.

For many years I wore more or less common quartz watches. Then I noticed that many people were wearing dive watches. I saw more dive watches than any other type of watch. But all the friends and colleagues that were wearing dive watches had a very loose connection to diving or had not even dived at all. And me the diver did not wear a dive watch! So I decided that it was time for a change.

In 2004 I started searching for the right watch for me. The most famous dive watch at that time in Germany was the IWC Ocean 2000. At that time the production of that watch had stopped long ago and I felt too uninformed to buy such a watch second hand. And I wanted a new one. So I started checking the display windows of the jewellers for alternatives. One model caught my attraction. It was a watch from Porsche Design that beared a lot of analogy to the Ocean 2000. So once upon a day I went into one of those luxury temples and tried the Porsche Design. I liked it. But the person who presented the watch to me and whom I told my thougths about "my" watch had another idea. He was a dive watch enthusiast and an IWC fan. His alternative proposal was the IWC GST Aquatimer in titanium.

Well, that watch was nice too. Really beautiful indeed. And it was an IWC like the Ocean 2000 that was kind of an ideal for me. But it cost more than twice as much as the Porsche Design. The IWC-dive-watch-enthusiast knew many advantages of the AT over the Porsche Design. So I had to leave and think over all this again.

Since I am writing this here you know the result. And as far as I remember it did not take very long to decide for the IWC AT...

Regards
Andreas

Ref. 3706 13 Spitfire

Just curious --what's your first IWC?

Back more than forty years while I was studying in Munich, there was this little shop where we students bought well-designed household items, and this shop suddenly had a used watch for sale, with a broad arrow engraving, type Nr. 6B/346, serial number 1515/46, and a black dial with a T within a circle ... :D
I bought this watch although I couldn't afford it, this my first IWC, for 600 Deutschmarks. Yieldwise, this Mark XI looks like the best investment I ever made...
Michael

Maybe not too late...

For me it was the 3714 Port Chrono, from my wife for my 40th birthday,

and coincidentally just talked at dinner few hours ago in Kuala Lumpur with a nice Thai lady colleague that she "was hiding" a newly bought 3714 in the hotel room safe, as she bought it for her friend. Her return to Bangkok within a few days will make some particular guy in Bangkok very happy.

Ciao, Rob.

Never too late, Rob ... (nt)