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Pre-Owned
IWC Watches

Since its inception in 1868, IWC has been cementing its motto of 'Probus Scafusia', meaning 'good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen'. Modern IWC watches undergo rigorous development and extensive testing, using advanced electric discharge machines, to ensure these standards are still adhered to over a century later.
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  1. Aquatimer Aquatimer
  2. Da Vinci Da Vinci
  3. Ingenieur Ingenieur
  4. Pilots Watches Pilots Watches
  5. Portofino Portofino
  6. Portugieser Portugieser
  7. Tribute to Pallweber Edition Tribute to Pallweber Edition
  8. Vintage Collection Vintage Collection
Case Size
The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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  7. Silver Silver
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  9. Steel & Rose Gold Steel & Rose Gold
  10. Steel & Rose Gold Plated Steel & Rose Gold Plated
  11. Steel & White Gold Steel & White Gold
  12. Steel & Yellow Gold Steel & Yellow Gold
  13. Titanium Titanium
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  1. Original papers Original papers
Movement
A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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IWC Pilot's Chrono IW388002 244755

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW388002

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€4,230
IWC Da Vinci Automatic IW358101 237454
Limited Edition

IWC
Da Vinci Automatic
IW358101

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€5,585
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW503801 244780
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW503801

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€17,720
IWC Ingenieur IW357001 277938

IWC
Ingenieur
IW357001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€4,000
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Automatic IW500109 255702

IWC
Portugieser Automatic
IW500109

Box
Papers
Year 2005
€4,975
IWC Portugieser Automatic IW500106 267242

IWC
Portugieser Automatic
IW500106

Box
Papers
Year 2014
€9,290
IWC Big Pilot's IW500401 268384

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500401

Box
Papers
Year 2007
Product Location
€5,400
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW501005 244123
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501005

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€7,775
IWC Aquatimer IW376705 245265

IWC
Aquatimer
IW376705

Box
Papers
Year 2010
€3,105
IWC Aquatimer IW379504 276498
Limited Edition

IWC
Aquatimer
IW379504

Box
Papers
Year 2014
Product Location
€6,660
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince IW392202 203558
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's Le Petit Prince
IW392202

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€28,960
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW500401 266966

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW500401

Box
Papers
Year 2009
€5,620
IWC Big Pilot's IW501901 252756

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501901

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
€8,995
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW503001 233748

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW503001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€20,385
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW323310 244928
Limited Edition

IWC
Ingenieur
IW323310

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€3,320
IWC Big Pilot's IW501903 244349
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501903

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€8,720
IWC Da Vinci Chronograph IW393402 256904
Limited Edition

IWC
Da Vinci Chronograph
IW393402

Box
Papers
Year 2023
Product Location
€8,335
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound IW516406 274299
Limited Edition

IWC
Portofino Hand-Wound
IW516406

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€9,485
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW326403 251269

IWC
Ingenieur
IW326403

Box
Papers
Year 2013
Product Location
€5,035
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW502001 256171

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW502001

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€5,670
IWC Ingenieur IW376501 244170

IWC
Ingenieur
IW376501

Box
Papers
Year 2014
€4,990
IWC Ingenieur IW376501 244422

IWC
Ingenieur
IW376501

Box
Papers
Year 2012
€4,780
IWC Portofino Chronograph IW391008 268465

IWC
Portofino Chronograph
IW391008

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€3,065
IWC Ingenieur IW378405 253109

IWC
Ingenieur
IW378405

Box
Papers
Year 2013
€3,345
IWC Ingenieur IW322404 244392
Limited Edition

IWC
Ingenieur
IW322404

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€6,880
IWC Portugieser Chrono IW390404 244423

IWC
Portugieser Chrono
IW390404

Box
Papers
Year 2015
€4,530
IWC Portugieser Chrono IW371616 281614

IWC
Portugieser Chrono
IW371616

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€4,585
IWC Ingenieur IW322703 251743

IWC
Ingenieur
IW322703

Box
Papers
Year 2005
Product Location
€4,075
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Yacht Club IW326606 243899
Limited Edition

IWC
Portugieser Yacht Club
IW326606

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€6,345
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389101 282128

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389101

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€6,845
IWC Portugieser Chrono IW371447 283669

IWC
Portugieser Chrono
IW371447

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€3,780
IWC Big Pilot's IW501012 244190
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501012

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€7,980
IWC Aquatimer IW379507 251760

IWC
Aquatimer
IW379507

Box
Papers
Year 2019
Product Location
€8,755
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Ingenieur IW372503 274290

IWC
Ingenieur
IW372503

Box
Papers
Year 2009
Product Location
€4,490
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW501005 243969
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW501005

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€7,655
IWC Big Pilot's IW502708 266947
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW502708

Box
Papers
Year 2018
Product Location
€15,020
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Portugieser Automatic IW500109 283667

IWC
Portugieser Automatic
IW500109

Box
Papers
Year 2011
€6,245
IWC Aquatimer IW379502 218150

IWC
Aquatimer
IW379502

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
€7,195
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Big Pilot's IW510301 244522
Limited Edition

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW510301

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€10,280
IWC Big Pilot's IW329304 268897

IWC
Big Pilot's
IW329304

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€6,105
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Pilot's Chrono IW389105 222402
Limited Edition

IWC
Pilot's Chrono
IW389105

Box
Papers
Year 2022
Product Location
€16,790
incl. import taxes & duties
IWC Aquatimer IW376801 214775

IWC
Aquatimer
IW376801

Box
Papers
Year 2015
Product Location
€6,115
incl. import taxes & duties

IWC History


Some watch brands have a certain inimitable style, and the International Watch Company is one of them. Distinguished by striking designs and unmatchable quality, IWC watches have held a special place in the hearts of watch enthusiasts since the company’s inception in 1868.

Fresh from his directorship at the American watch company E. Howard and Co., engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones set about opening a factory in Switzerland with the intention of combining American engineering with Swiss precision. It would be the basis of his new company, IWC. He immediately hit a snag when the watchmakers in the French-speaking areas of Switzerland—who traditionally worked from home—opposed his decision to open a factory.

White coal pioneer Johann Heinrich Moser began discussions with Florentine to open the factory in the German-speaking area of Switzerland instead, specifically in Schaffhausen. Johann had brought industrialisation to Schaffhausen with his hydro-electric plant, and the power it produced was perfect for the machines Florentine needed to make watches. In 1868, under the power of the River Rhine, IWC was born.

The company came on to the watchmaking scene with a bang, introducing the world’s first digital mechanical pocket watches in 1885. The Pallweber had windows cut into the dial, through which rotating discs displayed the hours and minutes. The public began to take notice of the watchmaker immediately.

The brand continued developing pocket watch movements to make them smaller and more compact for use in ladies’ pocket watches. These movements ended up in the first IWC watches that could be worn on the wrist, produced towards the end of the 19th century. The in-house Calibre 64 movement was particularly favoured for its crown and sub-seconds arrangement.

It wasn’t until 1944 that the next significant advancement occurred at the company, when Albert Pellaton started his career as Technical Director. The first of his developments was a soft iron core in the case of the brand’s pilots’ watch, which protected the movement from magnetic fields. Next came the Pellaton automatic winding system, an ingenious pawl-operated design that allowed a movement to be wound in both directions while simultaneously providing exceptional shock resistance. It remains a patented feature in the company’s watches to this day.

But it’s not just the final product that demonstrates the brand’s level of quality: it’s the journey it takes to get there. Modern IWC watches undergo rigorous development and testing using advanced electric discharge machines and computer-aided design. The manufacture’s parts can be made with tolerances as little as 0.001 millimetres—one hundredth the width of a human hair. This applies to all of the brand’s models: the Pilots’ Watches, the Portofino, the Ingenieur, the Aquatimer, the Da Vinci and the Portuguese included.

It would be safe to assume that components manufactured to this level of detail would be delicate, but IWC watches refuse to obey the laws of physics. Each development watch undergoes a rigorous set of tests, one of which being the ‘chapuis extreme’, a test that involves the watch being shaken 264,000 times in a box at forces of up 500 G.

It is therefore fitting for the brand, whose quality and technology are unmatched by others, to have the motto ‘Probus Scafusia’—meaning ‘good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen’. Perhaps that is an understatement.

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