Ceratanium® case Aquatimer

Details can be found here

I hope more details are provided about the manufacturing process and the hardness of the material.

Cheers from the cellar

Hi Greg,
Good to see you still around.
Interesting material. Looking forward to additional details.

Thank you Greg.
Most interesting :o)

This is quite a remarkable watch. I see some positive, and some not so positive points here.

The different parts are quite great:
- The looks of the current Aquatimer watches is quite nice, subdued, typically IWC: this model is a good example;
- The case material is new and spectacularly special;
- The movement is one of the nicest and most complicated ones IWC has to offer.

So, I can imagine this is a model for celebration.

But there are a few things I don't like:
- The size of the watch is too big: maybe not if it is used for diving, but who is going to use it for that purpose?
- Who needs a complicated perpetual calendar movement in a divers' watch?
- The price is steep: this celebration party is for the very rich, where a divers' watch is basically a tool for the common diver: these people are left in the cold.

Of course I didn't consider for one moment to buy this watch, but even so, I have mixed feelings about it.

Kind regards,
Paul

This one sits comfortably on wrist, thanks to its light weight.

Thanks for posting Greg®. Helpful post from Erwin® too.

Ceratanium® appears to be a perfect material for watches of this size. I look forward to seeing it®.

Best wishes,

Rave®®

There are clearly not enough ®®® in this world and we should use them at every opportunity. I applaud IWC® for starting this initiative.

A perpetual calendar dive watch. Now that is a useful tool. My scuba days are now on the rearview mirror, but I still recall that my main concern when diving was to know the month of the dive. ;)

A tool watch nobody will ever use as a tool.
I like the movement as such, and I applaud IWC for innovating with the case material. However, imo the concept of this watch does not make sense, and the implementation of the concept is not successful.

It would have been much better to introduce the ceratanium case material with a time-only diver with a caliber 82110 (as in CF4) based movement.