Joined last week, purchased today

I joined the forum last week with the plan to perhaps buy a IWC later this year or next. That is until I saw this UTC classic in mint condition at my local AD today. Needless to say I was sold...

Congrats, welcome and great start! nt

Congratulations and welcome!

I would probably have done the same! Enjoy your watch and wear it in good health!

Kind regards,

Clemens

Nice catch, congrats!!!!! nt

nt

Congratulations and welcome!

Yep Congrats' and a very good choice indeed with this true "Classic" you got there.
Enjoy it!!
Regards
Jan

Good purchase and welcome.

welcome........nt

Welcome to IWC!!..Congratulations. (nt)

First Welcome to the forum and Second >>>

congratulations on your acquisition. Very nice pick up for your first IWC. We will stay tuned as the IWC uhren virus leads you to more IWC's in your future.

Bill

A Classic-Emeritus choice! nt.

Joined last week, purchased today

Congratulations on your new watch. And the lovely photos.
And welcome to the forum.

Joined last week, purchased today

excellent. welcome to the forum. great watch. enjoy it.

Congratulations and welcome to the forum

Warm welcome and

what a great start to your collection.

Andrew

great and you have the non-tritium (nt)

Joined last week, purchased today

Hi Marinus64

That is a great watch - got one for myself recently.

As mhoutman noted, you have a non-tritium dial and I guess it must be one of the last produced. I have the tritium/SL dial - mine has serial number 276958X - I am curious as to how far apart mine is from the last Classic UTCs produced - do you mind telling me your serial no. please?

BR. Niels

Welcome...

... and congratulations!
Great Watch

I have one my self. It is allways a pleasure to wear it.

john

Last Classic UTCs produced ?

Hi Niels,

Serial number is 288693X and the date on the guarantee card is November 2006 so this may very well be one of the last ones produced.

By the way, how can I tell that is is a non-tritium (and is that a good thing ?)

Regards, Marinus

That is a great catch! welcome.

Last Classic UTCs produced ?

You cant really use the selling/warranty date for much - mine is stamped in 2008 but judging by the s/n my watch is more than 100,000 pcs older than yours.
The "classic" Pilot UTC disappeared from the catalogue after 2003.
I think this watch was a slow seller and many remained on the shelves for years.
The "tritrium" dial is identified by a 'T' before and after Swiss Made. For some unknown reason (to me) IWC choose to combine Tritrium and Luminova in the beginning (all of the classic UTC watches that I have seen have the T dial) - the hour markers are Luminova but the 12 o'clock triangle and the hands are Tritium and will most likely have a slightly warm patina by now.
Yours appear to be all Luminova thus probably giving dial and hands a more homogeneous look.
Which is better must be in the eyes of the beholder. The watch is not a hot collector’s item so there is no judgement on attractiveness from this community yet :-).

Big Congrats! Classic dial UTC is lovely!