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History: IWC
IWC
There seem to be many unusual facts when looking at the history of the International Watch Company , abbreviated IWC ; starting from several financial collapses nearly resulting in liquidations of the company, and ending with taking into consideration that the siege of the company is in the German-speaking area Schaffhausen.
The launch up of the company was initiated by the American F.A. Jones with the intent to produce more economically a certain range of pocketwatches for the American market in Switzerland. In Schaffhausen the met the skilled fine watch maker " Johann Heinrich Moser ", a native inhabitant of Schaffhausen. Nowadays he also is known under the name " Henry Moser ".
On the 120th birthday of the IWC company the fine watch makers of the company made the best present to themselves by re-launching the IWC caliber 8541.
This is an automatic clockwork derriving from the late 1940s and no better has ever been built.
Only the history, the development, the production, the improvements and the patents of the automatic winding mechanism – functioning in both winding directions of the flywheel mass - would fill books.
Not to be mentioned the Breguet-mainspring. A time machine of the robustness and complexity of the 8541 automatic, consequently must have a certain volume.
Our times and our society again are becoming more and more open for watches of a certain format and this cannot be said about the recent past.