I had the bright idea to put the bracelet in the snow as an afterthought. It's
really neat how clean the lines in the snow are marking where the bracelet
fell through.

Then, shortly after I dropped the bracelet in the snow, my father-in-law
decided to shovel the snow in the front of the house. Where I set the bracelet
down was close to where he started, putting it at the very bottom of a mound
of snow. The mountain of snow was even higher once the snow was all shoveled.
I found it to be pretty funny and laughed at the situation.

6 days later, the snow finally (almost) melted and I was able to pick up the
bracelet.

Pretty cool to see parts of the bracelet "covered" in mud.

As expected, the titanium bracelet weathered the 6 days of low temperatures,
snow, and ice like a champ and came out like nothing happened. But then again,
I guess that's not too surprising for some solid pieces of titanium.

I washed the bracelet, reattached it to the case, and have been wearing it
since. Watch and bracelet are both ok!

Congrats Ben, very lovely addition that speaks of old-world charm. I love how
it's still in such great shape after all this time.

Yeah Clemens, very interesting that the quartz would advance (way) past any
possible day of the month it's programmed for.

My thoughts exactly, a little snow and ice wouldn't affect or cause any sort
of damage to the watch. I'm guessing the the only negative affect from letting
the watch's temperature drop to that low is the gaskets could harden and
become brittle sooner rather than later (which of course could lead to more
serious issues).

But like my wife said (when I showed her that I put the watch in the snow
again), maybe I just won't be happy until I destroy the watch. While I think
that's true to a certain extent,

• I don't really want to cause damage to my watch (and pay a hefty price for it) because I love this watch
• I wouldn't intentionally do any thing that I think would actually damage/harm the watch (like drop the watch from the top of a building or introduce tremendous shock to it (which I've done before to another watch unintentionally and which caused the movement to fail)

I guess you could just compare it to me trying to re-create the temperature
tests IWC subjects the watches through (in this case the 2005 catalogue
which has pictures of this Ingenieur as examples), and most importantly it's
all done for fun and to satisfy my curiosity ha.

Opportunity presented itself to play in the snow again

Some of the pictures are getting reoriented after uploading. Any one else
having trouble with uploading pictures in general or pictures being
reoriented?

An idea was had and since I didn't have any thing else to do, why not take
advantage of the situation? I've always liked to put my watches to the test
anyways!

Too bad it didn't snow even more! But it was cold and wet so I guess that
counts for something. 18.5F = -7.5C

The watches were chillin' outside for about 5-6 hours - they were frozen stuck
to the deck and I had to pull a little to remove them ha. My Ingenieur lost
about 4 seconds while the Citizen didn't lose/gain any time (but under normal
conditions it runs fast).

Wonder what I'll do next...?

Cheers!

Happy New Year IWC Fans!

I of course had to wear my Ingenieur on the new strap. (Seems like it's not
possible to upload pictures at the moment - will upload a pic when able to)

Although on second thought watching the time turn 12:00 on my Pallweber
would've been really fun - must make a note of it for next NYE.

Wear your watches in good health!

Thanks everyone! Surprisingly (or maybe not), I'm having a hard time going
back to the (way) more subtle stock strap and a dark leather one I have ha!

Cheers

Thanks Jim and Clem - it's definitely very refreshing!

Can't wait to wear it to the next F1 race I go to (whenever that will be)!

Cheers

Although I love my 3224-01 because it's so understated--to the point it gets
zero attention--I've been wanting to add some spice and visual "pop" to the
carbon fiber Ingenieur for some time now, so I reused a strap I had and
replaced the original inlay.

Voila! I chose yellow to enhances the yellow accents on the dial--and because
it's my favorite color. Specifically, it's a strong and bold Signal Yellow to
match the F1 theme of this Ingenieur. Lizard skin was used for the inlay
because of the small scales, which better matches the small "scales" of the
carbon fiber's weave pattern.

I still have a standard strap, so going from a sunshine-in-your-face look to
unassuming G-Shock-style is just a strap change away.

It's a little past summer now, but titanium on red rock in the summer heat all
kinda just go together.

I've actually been thinking recently why has IWC basically abandoned (in more
ways than one) and disassociated the Ingenieur with F1.

The Ingenieur's storyline was rebranded in 2013 to be the watch partnered with
the Mercedes F1 team, but the branding and imaging was never really pushed,
and now the Ingenieur almost has no presence in F1. The only time I see the
Ingenieur associated with the Mercedes F1 team is on the wrists of the pit
crew and engineers wearing Ingenieurs (and I love it)--but that's it.

The Pilots line is basically the unofficial Mercedes F1 watch for a few years
now--both drivers (and their gloves), Toto, Andrew Shovelin wear Pilots--the
F1 branding is all about the Pilots watch.

My guess is that the Pilots line is more popular and what sells best (for sure
Pilot sells 100x better than the Ingenieur), so IWC just stopped their efforts
with the Ingenieur.

The Ingenieur is my favorite line (not including the current generation), so
I'm biased and wish IWC would've used the Ingenieur more in F1. I bought my
Ingenieur because I love F1 and the Mercedes AMG F1 team is my favorite team,
but the lack of Ingenieur presence has been a downer.

Thoughts from the forum on why the Ingenieur doesn't fit the F1 branding any
longer?

I'm the friend - congrats Edo!

Welcome to the club and forum - Another One Bites the Dust haha!

Will be fun to see your collection grow, gotta catch'em all!

Wear it in good health!

Ouch, well that sucks. Was hoping it wasn't a fake, even though I thought the
proportions of the big date, retrograde, and small seconds were all off. Was
pretty sure IWC wouldn't release something with the the proportions so wrong
haha.

Off to tell my friend the not-so-fun news,,,

Thanks for the help!

Hi guys,

My friend is wondering what the reference number of this Portuguese is. I
don't know if it's old enough to be in this section of the forum, but thought
I'd go straight to the experts to inquire. I never knew there was a Portuguese
like this, but it's nice to think that this reference provided some
inspiration for the Jubilee Big Pilot's Big Date reference.

Thanks for the help!

Wow that's awesome!

Cingrats on completing the collection!

That's a great milestone Baz - congrats!

Just curious when did you get your first IWC? Was it before or after you got
your first IWC?

I wonder since I only joined once I got my first IWC and (and didn't think to
search for the IWC forum prior), but wish I would've the forum joined prior
to getting my first IWC (this of course means I obviously wish I would've
gotten my first IWC much earlier).