New 5001 with 51011 c

Hi all,

I just recently got a 5001-07... great watch. Absolutely love it.

However, have a question.

The (I believe they are pawls) 'claws' that hold the gear in place on the winding system in my watch seem to be made from white plastic, where as pictures everywhere else seem to show them made from a 'bronze' metal. Does anyone know if this is a recent design change?

I think I can see on the Tribeca special edition that the claws are white plastic.

However on the standard version... you can see the 'claws'/pawls are a 'bronze' metal.

Really would like to find out why this is :)

Hopefully someone understand what I am talking about :)

Thanks

Tom

Dear Tom.Welcome.The white pawls that you describe are made of ceramic-a very hard and hopefully more durable material in the watch movement context.
I can vouch for ceramic as a particularly useful material in many other applications.Its usefulness in the watch industry,I believe is fairly new,but by no means irrelevant.
Regards.
Kenneth.

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Referring your question, and suppose your "search" function does not work as well ( mine does not ), here's a link to an earlier discussion about the ceramic pawls, including a picture of an article which was published last year I believe. www.iwc.com/forum/en/discussion/56358/?page=1#post_401360

Have a great weekend,

This is very interesting, I had not heared of this change.

Kind regards,

Clemens

Hmm, interesting, is the ceramic only unique to the Tribeca LE watch or has the range been updated?

Fantastic! I should have thought it was ceramic myself! Thanks so much.

Yes thanks for that, my search doesn't work either. Doesn't find anything, even when I enter 'IWC'. So suspected it might be wrong :)