![]() In 1940, the Big Pilot watch was introduced in response to the demand for larger aviation watches. These include the 89 Calibre, a soft-iron inner case which protects the movement from magnetism and the efficient pawl-winding system which eventually became famous as the Pellaton winding system. Albert Pellaton, then IWC’s Technical Director, invented a few mechanisms to address this problem. Then, Portuguese importers commissioned large wristwatches with high-precision pocket watch movements – making these the first Portugieser watches made by IWC.Īfter the war, as the use of technology increased, more and more appliances created magnetic fields that affected the accuracy of timepieces. The first model called “Spezialuhr für Flieger” or “special clock for aviators”, established the tradition of producing Pilot’s Watches in Schaffhausen. Under his leadership, two watch families were born, which are icons to this day. In its early years, IWC produced pocket watches with a digital “Pallweber” display, alongside wristwatches for women and men.įollowing the death of Johannes Rauschenbach-Schenk, Schaffhausen business magnate Ernst Jakob Homberger took over IWC. When Jones moved back to the United States, the company was handed over to the Rauschenbachs, an industrialist family from Schaffhausen. With the help of watchmaker Johann Heinrich Moser, and drawing from the expertise of eminently skilled Swiss artisans, he manufactured high-quality pocket watch movements. ![]() ![]() His desire was to fuse the artistry of traditional Swiss watchmaking with new world production techniques. or IWC traces its roots to 1868, when American engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones travelled to Switzerland to make watch parts for the American market. ![]()
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