Dear All,
simple question but maybe, not simple answer.
Which model, to your knowledge and/or experience, has the best movement's finitures?
Please reply, listing your best choice 1] overall (throughout the whole IWC history - pws included) and 2]contemporary.
It would be great also to see some nice examples of the models you'll have selected.
Thanks in advance for your replies!
Well, quite easy for PW owners :-)
Blued screws and elaborate decorations are basics.
So, I would choose those.
Greetings
Heiko
Cool topic. Subjective, but I'll take a stab with my ideas.
All time bst finished is the Ref 1868 Il Destriero Scafusia. The finishing makes it worthy of the reference number, homage to the founding year of IWC.
In the contemporary collection, it also has to be a manual wound watch, just because there is more visible bridgework and surface to work with. I think the 98000 calibre family on the Portuguese Hand Wound is that watch.
After seeing Ardoise and Hebe's post I think the competition got over before it even started..... extremely beautiful !
Vishal.
Heiko has THE winner. It is hard to not agree with his selection.
The picture below my signature is one of the best in my small collection.
Agree the above posts possibly are the winners. Makes my 1850 with gilded C8541 look drab. But there again, skeleton watches are intriguing but I wonder just how balanced they are which means I will never buy one as I would always be worried that the various components would be running like tyres with no balance weights and some run smooth and others can make the whole journey unbearable.
The perpetual PW, the engraving reminds me of the engraving found on best London guns, and they come at a frightening price!
Yeah, I had something else in mind until I saw Heiko's and Richard's submission...game over!!!
Nice one Rob.
Me too have thought of IL Destriero and Cal.98000 and even though I am far from being called a pocket watch expert I knew there was something like Heiko showed us.
What a beautiful set of movements - that's all I can say!
Polishings Gentlemen, polishings.
Decorations are a world apart.
I want (I'd like) to see anglage, cote de geneve, surfaces treated a le poli noir etc. etc.
Decorations examples are very welcome (thanks Heiko and Ardoise) though :)
absolutely beautiful. looking forward to spending time with this one if i get the chance ! there have been twice @ auction previews but those were neglected times.
Great topic Roberto - I too would love to see a movement well decorated, finished, with beautiful perlage, bevelling and anglage.
To my thinking blued screws and swirling decoration does not make the best finishing, but rather careful hand beveling of the bridges and cocks (anglage) and Geneva or other stripes as hand-polishing does.
I would vote for some of the Calibre 77 pocket watch production, at least those versions with decorated bridges. The only photo I have easily accessible is this one, which isn't optimal:
I think some other pocket watch guys would occur.
Agree Michael, there are many excellent dekorations.
This similar C.66 is one of my favourites too.
Regards
Heiko
My vote goes to the new 89365 movement. No nonsense finishing, quite fitting to the Spitfire Chrono tool watch. Alas, no picture by myself, as my Spifire Chrono has no display back.
Kind regards,
Paul
There is one movement that is not in the running for this is the movement in the sidereal, what photos I have seen it looks almost like a raw unfinished movement.
No nonsense finishing?
Paul, I don't quite get this what do you mean?
The 89365 has no stripes but rather a soft polished finish. The letters on the rotor are not guilded. The whole has therefore a restrained, matter-of-fact look, when compared to its brother the 89360/1. There was a comparison picture on this forum, probably to be found in the archive.
Kind regards,
Paul
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking of the Il Destriero Scafusia and trying to figure out how & where to get a photo. Happily, I just saw one yesterday on a new IWC friend we met!!!!!!
Thanks for posting!