Here's what Museum curator Dr. David Seyffer wrote me, with a few edits:
The presentation of Mark Levinsohn's "black 22” in the Museum was a huge success. (please see www.iwc.com/forum/en/discussion/58246/ )
Now after more than a year we present a new watch in the museum. We show the watch of Heiko Bertram (Hebe), a black ocean 2000.
Above is a scan of the watch as shown in “Die Uhren von IWC. Band 4: Die Armbanduhren (Design Ferdinand A. Porsche), 1985. The watch will be presented now in the museum till March 2014.
There is the following information with the watch:
“Selected watches from friends and collectors of IWC”
The black Ocean 2000 IWC Porsche Design watches are extremely rare and represent a special example of material innovation at IWC. Using the TiCON hardening process developed by IWC, titanium watches were blackened from 1983 to the end of the 1980s. Heiko Bertram is the proud owner of a black Ocean 2000, and has been collecting IWC watches for over 15 years. He is interested in both the company history and the technology employed in the IWC timepieces.
– Black dial, hardened titanium case and bracelet, convex sapphire glass, water-resistant to 200 bar
– Black dial, baton hand; indices, hands and triangle in the bezel inlaid with Super-LumiNova
– IWC calibre 37521, date display, self-winding, 21 rubies, monometallic balance, flat spring, precision regulator, hacking seconds for precise setting of the time, shock-protected balance wheel bearing
– Sold to IWC Frankfurt on 13 April 1988
Regards, Michael
mfriedberg@iwcforum.com
