As some of you know, I am collecting pocketwatches, IWC only.
Far from saying that my collection is a museum collection but I am proud to
have found some nice and rare pieces over time.
Some of the pocketwatches are common, easy to find on the market, sometimes in
better condition than mine, but some I have are gems.
So in these crazy times, as the museum in Schaffhausen is closed, why not open
one here on the forum.
As long as the museum is closed, I will post here daily a pocketwatch from my
collection.
I hope I don't run out of pieces before the virus is beaten. Fingers crossed
for all of us.
I will post them in a random order, with some comments, feel free to join.
Keep safe all.
DAY 5 :
For today I wanted to post a SchutzenUhr, a price watch for a shooting
competition.
IWC made several for these competitions, that are mainly held in Switserland,
some in Germany.
Most of the IWC SchutzenUhren were made for the Swiss competitions, but some
were for Germany too,
I always thought that I had a SchutzenUhr from the 1912 Frankfurter
SchutzenFest and wanted this one to post here.
So took it out the banksafe, did my research in the forum archives ...to then
see that mine was not really the same as the one I saw in an earlier post.
That post is here ; forum.iwc.com/t/the-first- of-25/2820/4/#post-217802
I checked the numbers on the case and caliber : these are OK, dial is OK, case
is OK except for the case decoration, missing the mention of being a
SchutzenUhr.
A mystery and we can start speculating how this was possible. I know of
another Schutzenuhr that came in two editions, as a SchutzenUhr and also as a
"civilian" one without the name SchutzenUhr written on the dial. Is it
something like that ? Maybe someone knows...
Even in your own collection you can make discoveries browsing these old posts
on the forum.
Inside we have the bestseller of the IWC pocketwatch calibers, the cal 52
A special feature is the brand name on the dial, typical for that era.
Regards,
You made a new
So,
