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The limited-edition IWC Pilot's Watch Automatic Edition Antoine de Saint Exupery is restricted to 1929 examples. This number relates to the year of publication of Saint Exuperys first novel, "Courrier Sud" (Southern Mail). read more

The IWC UTC Edition Antoine de Saint Exupery limited edition watch has incorporated the UTC world time display, developed by the company 10 years ago. The single platinum edition of the model will be auctioned for a charity cause. read more

Four historically important watches are included in the sale such as a pocket watch by Le Roy that once belonged to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an IWC wristwatch formerly the property of Charlie Chaplin, an Art Deco wrist watch by Patek Philippe sold in 1924 to one of the founders of Coca Cola as well as the fine pendant watch of Napoleon III. read more

The heart of the timepiece is Calibre 50910, an exceptional IWC in-house automatic movement. The mechanism incorporates the innovative Pellaton winding system.  read more

One of the major introductions for IWC at this year's SIHH is the re-launch of the Da Vinci collection. Updated in styling and forward thinking in terms of complications, suiting the collection’s inventor namesake, the new Da Vinci features a tonneau shaped case with a new IWC proprietary chronograph movement, a Limited Edition Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar in honour of IWC Chief Designer Kurt Klaus and a smaller, three hand automatic. read more

The newly wed husband of Desperate Housewives' actress Eva Longoria stars in the latest advertising campaign for Swiss watch brand IWC Schaffhausen.Parker, 25, moved from France to join the Spurs in 2001, becoming the youngest starting point guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA). read more

Dating back to the end of the 17th century, another unique lot is a gold and polychrome enamel pocket watch featuring images of the Virgin and child with Joseph on one side of the case, and Hercules and Omphale rendered on the other. On the more modern side, a limited-edition IWC watch issued in 1993 to celebrate the brand's 125th anniversary—one of only 125 worldwide and considered one of the most mechanically complicated wristwatches ever made—will also come under the hammer. read more

Singaporean actor-director Ng Chin Han was sported wearing an IWC classic Portuguese Chrono-Automatic watch at the premiere of The Dark Knight held on July 14th, in New York City.

In the movie, the 38-year old Ng Chin Han played the role of Hong Kong mobster Lau. The premier was also attended by the co-stars - Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman. Chin Han admitted he was really pleased to have worked with such a great cast.

Before his work with Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan and the breakthrough role in the movie, Ng Chin Han played a range of supporting roles in a variety of independent movies. Chin Han has also applied his talent of the director in plays and musical adaptations. The actor was first presented to Singapore audiences in 1994, when he starred in the English TV drama 'Masters of the Sea'.
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The official website of the watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen invites its visitors to watch the short film of a multimedia performance by the Sydney Theatre Company.

The film, starring Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and famous Hollywood actor Joseph Fiennes, is an interpretation-story telling about IWC founder Florentine Ariosto Jones and his wife and his first steps towards watch manufacturing.

The multimedia stage play was premiered to 1,700 guests at a gala night held by IWC at the SIHH watch fair in Geneva. Now everyone interested may view the play as a 20-minute short film on www.iwc.com/thecrossing. It's also worth mentioning that the 'Making-of' section on the site provides interviews with Cate Blanchett, the film director and other actors.

The Sydney Theatre Company has created an exciting cultural project paying tribute to the 140th anniversary of IWC. The multimedia theatre performance is a creative interpretation of the myth associated with Florentine Ariosto Jones.

In the film, Cate Blanchett is the pregnant wife left behind by the IWC founder, played by Joseph Fiennes. The adventurous watchmaker and engineer, in a bold attempt to realize his dream, comes to Europe trying to establish and develop the manufacture of watch movements and raise it to a new and cheaper level of production.

According to director Nigel Jamieson, it took him three months to dramatize the myth of the IWC foundation that actually lasts just 20 minutes and is presented as a short film on the site.
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The IWC Ingenieur Automatic Edition 'Climate Action' has been created to support The Climate Group, an independent nonprofit organization established in 2004. IWC is donating part of the sales' proceeds for the projects of the internationally active organization, cooperating with governments and business leaders from different countries of the world to reach the rapid establishment of a low-carbon economy.

The watch is crafted in stainless steel and ceramic. The limited special edition features a silvered dial with yellow 5-minute indices and a back engraving. The color theme is echoed in the backstitching of the strap and the engraving 'IWC supports voluntary action on climate change'. read more

The Vintage Portofino Hand-Wound watch pays tribute to the brand's famous Ref. 5251 watch, produced in limited numbers in the late 1990s. The Ref. 5251 Portofino watch was equipped with an old IWC pocket watch movement, the Caliber 9521. The original IWC Ref. 5251 represented an impressively large, yet deliciously flat watch. The timepiece revealed an amazing horizontal moonphase and small second display, with the beauty enhanced due to its idiosyncratic design.

The new Vintage Portofino Hand-Wound watch features the gorgeous vertical layout. The IWC watch houses a manually-wound pocket watch-type caliber with the elongated IWC 'Jones Index'.
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For the third year in a row, IWC offers its support to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. The Schaffhausen-based watchmaking company has created a special limited edition of the Da Vinci Chronograph. The case back of the watch reveals an engraving of a winning entry from an IWC drawing competition. The drawing, depicting a group of girls playing handball, was created by 15-year-old Heena Javed Shaikh from India.

Part of the proceeds from the sales of the 1,000 pieces of the Da Vinci Chronograph will be donated to support the Foundation's projects aimed to benefit more than 150,000 children worldwide.
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IWC is introducing six legendary members of its most famous watch families - the Portuguese, Ingenieur, Pilot's Watch, Da Vinci, Aquatimer, Portofino - into the present day as vintage models.

The new timekeeping interpretations are equipped with contemporary, IWC-manufactured automatic movements or with hand-wound pocket watch movements. The six vintage models represent the true cornerstones in the IWC history.

Each of the models marked the beginning of a new era at IWC and formed the base for successful horological achievements in the fields of aviation, diving, engineering and complications, having become highly valued legends in collectors' circles.
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