I've got a question about my IWC; I am the proud and lucky owner of an Ingenieur Vintage Collection:
I beleived that 80111 caliber was fully manufacturated at Schaffhausen IWC factory, but I read on a forum that is actually an ETA caliber, with the base plate of 7750, and produced by ETA under the direction of IWC, is this true?, in that case, what calibers are actually designed and manufactured entirely by IWC Schaffhausen?
This very beautiful watch has an in-house movement. See it this way too: in 2008, having a 140 anniversary, IWC produced six watches in the Vintage Collection series. Three had a handwound movement, three an automatic. They all had a transparent sapphire back showing the movement. The two movements used were in-house, of course.
Kind regards,
Paul
Do you have the IWC 2010/2011 catalogue ? Pages 18-23 give a tabulation of selected in house IWC manufacture calibres.
There are also some archived posts that will give you full details - but my search skills are not good enough to help out directly.
Hi,
it has been discussed many times, forum search may help, main plate same as 7760 (hw), projected and developed in-house, no parts compatible between these movements, currently produced by ETA on tech specs by IWC.
MF, please amend if I'm wrong.
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Roberto, I have no knowledge that you're correct here. I have no confirmation where the movement plates are fabricated and no knowledge that this movement is other than in-house (although of course some parts of all movements -screws, springs, balance wheels, etc. are obtained from various suppliers).
Michael,
to tell the truth I was more than sure I've been reading this through the forum in a post of yours (that's why I took the info as something certain). After some researches in the archives I found the right thread but I discovered you've never expressed a comment like this.
So, I beg pardon to ruimanju and to you for the last statement of mine in the post above which has to be checked.
Anyway, in this post there's a (reported) comment attributed to G. Kern of some interest:
http://www.iwc.com/forum-en/topic/217564.html?page=1
It would be interesting to know a little more about it.