Tuesdays Tour of the Archive

We rarely think of IWC watches with chronometer certificates and when we do we think of Switzerland but from the late 1800's, Stauffer, Son & Co., the English distributors of IWC submitted watches to the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington/London (Kew Observatory) for testing.

Part One:

https://www.iwc.com/member/forum/search_all.asp?table=archives&name=earlyiwc&subject=kew&archived=yes&id=17008

Part Two:

https://www.iwc.com/member/forum/search_all.asp?table=archives&name=earlyiwc&subject=kew&archived=yes&id=17009

Sadly the author, Friedrich Wagener, has passed away and his excellent website is no longer available but a pdf file of the above with images is available in the internet archive (link below). The link is very S.....L.....O.....W..... but the full article is worthwhile.

Cheers from the cellar

Chronometer Certificates

Very interesting, great "tour", thanks.

This was another addition to my ongoing...

IWC education! Thanks Greg, for an informative tour.

Best regards,
Jim

Great tour cellar thank you (nt)

Thanks again cellar

Very interesting material. I also noticed that there was a Stauffer watch in the picture of the Certificates books, scoring 96.1 out of 100 :-)

Kind regards,

Clemens

Thanks, really interesting!

Thanks, Greg - that really brings back memories