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 66, 800 year Luzern.
Today not a Schutzenuhr, but one that could be mistaken for one. In fact I
could call it an epilogue to the 1979 Luzern Schutzenuhr story I told the
previous days.
I wrote that the Luzern watchmaker Jorg Sporing ordered these Schutzenuhren
after he had a successful idea of ordering a watch for the 800th anniversary
of the city of Luzern.
This is the one that was made for that occasion.
The Luzern artist Rolf Brem was asked to design the case and IWC was asked to
build the pocketwatches.
In 1977 only 50 pocketwatches were made in that order ; 24 Lepine in silver
with cal 952 and 24 Hunter cases in silver with cal 982. Also two Hunter cases
in gold were made with a calendar function ( no knowledge of the cal number )
The caseback represents the old city of Luzern.
As where many Schutzenuhren have lost their details on the case due to
polishing, this one is near mint showing a lot of details.
Again here without IWC case numbering
And some details
