Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nelson, Actually for some models they once again do. They came out with a limited series of larger wrist watches (2000 Series) which use their Pellaton Caliber 5000 which was designed to be very similar to both their famous Caliber 89 and the finest automatic movement ever made the IWC Caliber 8541. See this URL if you're interested: http://www.timezone.com/ticle.aspx?id=psttime&articleId=psttime631687631288297847 IWC (International Watch Company) has been around since 1868 and I believe they are the only fine Swiss Watchmaker in the German part of Switzerland ( at Schaffhausen). The also have the singular honor of being the only Swiss manufacturing facility to have been bombed by the 8th US Airforce during W.W.II. IWC is the only Swiss Watchmaker to run an in-house watchmakers school. Many of today's finest craftsmen trained at IWC. Lange and Sohn is a sister company of IWC and many of their watchmakers started out at IWC. BTW, IWC invented the automatic movement (Albert Pellaton) during the early 1950's and Hillary wore an IWC Automatic Watch (an Ingenieur I believe) when he climbed Mt. Everest. Regards, Greg Nelson Chan wrote: >Jerry, > >IWC do not make their own movement. I know only 2 manufacturer that makes >their watches 100%, Patek and AP. > >Nelson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; "Don Williams" ><dwilli10@san.rr.com> >Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:16 AM >Subject: Re: [Leica] was @#$@#$#@ foreigners..FU to all who agree with this >crap > > >>Jean-Michel >> >>Yes I know that a lot of the "name" swiss watches are just >>"assemblages" of components, but I know there must be some >>that are made 100% in house. IWC comes to mind, though I >>know there must be more. >> >>Jerry >> >>Jean-Michel Tomaschett wrote: >> >>>What is a "real" mechanical watch? >>>Do you think the majority of them are "really" hand-made? >>> >>>A batteryless wristwatch made in Switzerland does not automatically mean >>> >it > >>>is handmade. >>>Most of the Swiss watch companies are not independent. >>>Please excuse my English, I live in watch-country. >>> >>>Jean-Michel >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >>> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html