IWC original or copy :S?

Hey, I'd like to know if this IWC is original?

Mechanism serial # 346280
Clock Serial # 397.364

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This is so NOT a real IWC. Keep away!

It might be an original IWC pocket watch movement put into a newly made wristwatch case. The conversion is unusually badly done and definitely not worth 3550 SEK. (About €400)

"Garanterat unik" "Guaranteed to be unique". Yes, there is no other watch so ugly on the market.

Henrik (in Stockholm)

These ugly "marriages" are reaching epidemic proportions now and seem to be connected to the increasingly higher price of gold.
Gold traders seem to be buying gold PWs for the gold content only, and selling the movements to bad matchmakers who are using them to make increasingly uglier wrist watches.
There is only one solution - stay out of the demand, and the offer will dry out.

Hey, thanks a lot for answering! Appreciate it I'll stay out of it.

/ noorm

Sadly, the current Gold price is definitely costing many a beautiful and classic GENUINE IWC watch (both pocket and early vintage) to be stripped down.

We as a group must shout it out loudly (because it's true) - THESE WATCHES (MARRIAGES)ARE OF NO COMMERCIAL OR ANY OTHER INTEREST TO COLLECTORS. In addition, we need to warn of the fact that service and spares will not be forthcoming from IWC, on these watches.

Absolutely true.
There is only one solution - stay out of the demand, and the offer will dry out.

Here is the testimony of an Marriagalcoholic Anonym.

At first you feel like: "I cannot afford a brand new IWC, so let's get a one century old IWC movement in a fancy new casing!" The good news is the good price (10 times less expensive than a 100% real one). The good excuse is the new life promise for this old movement.

But if you think 5 minutes more (in my case it took 5 weeks more or less):
- try to figure out a 50mm average diameter watch on your wrist;
- forget about any IWC service (I asked IWC and received a clear answer); if you know a nice watchmaker around, he might not be able to find spares, or maybe not able to do anything inside, unless he is a very old fellow, not interested by his own profitability... or maybe you will spend the other 9/10 of the total price of a 100% IWC
- forget about having a good time keeping

On the other side, you will have something people will notice on your wrist. You may even like it much (no joke here).

So finally I would say: "unless you fall in love with a "marriage" watch for whom you can spend loads of money in the long term, just move away from this bad temptation."

Good luck in your searches...
Christophe.