As some of you know, I am collecting pocketwatches, IWC only.
Far from saying that my collection is a museum collection but I am proud to
have found some nice and rare pieces over time.
Some of the pocketwatches are common, easy to find on the market, sometimes in
better condition than mine, but some I have are gems.
So in these crazy times, as the museum in Schaffhausen is closed, why not open
one here on the forum.
As long as the museum is closed, I will post here daily a pocketwatch from my
collection.
I hope I don't run out of pieces before the virus is beaten. Fingers crossed
for all of us.
I will post them in a random order, with some comments, feel free to join.
Keep safe all.
DAY 2 :
The Bergland cal 983,a very rare find. Not a 100% IWC since only the caliber
was sold to the company Bergland who put it in a case.
But still interesting to list it here because of the rare movement.
I did a bit of research in the archives and found these quotes in older posts,
"calibre 983 which has been created during their main crisis - featuring flat
hairspring and KIF-Spirofin regulating system as well known at the 889-family.
To seperate this 983 from all others - the movement has been rose-gold plated.
As far as I know this movement must be one of the rarest IWC-PW-movements due
to very small production."
"The 983 has been a "cheap" version of the 982 with the same bridges and
"cotes de geneve" - the balance has been a non-screwed one with flat
haispring and KIF-Spirofin regulator instead of the original design.
Unfortunatly I don't have pics - the movement itself has been rose-gold-
plated. According to Jurgen King - the development manager at this time -
those movements have been sold at the "crisis"-time to german watch companies
to produced this typical kind of german "hunters"-pocketwatches"
both quotes from Richard Habring, at that time employee with IWC.
And from Kurt Klaus :
"The balance is without compensation screws and the balance spring is flat.
These are different from cal. 982. The idea was to produce 2 pocket watches
with cal. 953 and 983 for a cheaper price, during a period that nobody wanted
a pocket watch and nobody was thinking yet of a Portugieser"
