IWC Ingenieur

"A watch designed for scientists and technicians"

60s

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Since the mid-1950s, the IWC Ingenieur is synonym of a watch especially designed for scientists and technicians, providing them all the required specifications: water resistance, antimagnetic properties and high precisions had always been part of the package offered by the IWC Ingenieur.

The IWC Ingenieur came on the market in 1954-55 under the references 666A and 666AD. It featured the calibre 852 (for the 666A) or calibre 8521 (for the 666AD), both created under the directions of Albert Pellaton, that was IWC’s Technical Director since 1944.

Equipped with the Pellaton winding system, the movement was inserted into a soft iron cage – the dial, the movement’s ring and the caseback cover were creating a protection against magnetic fields up to 80,000 amperes per meter (A/m). Thus, the IWC Ingenieur reached more than 16 times the resistance required by the Swiss norm for antimagnetic watches."

The heritage of IWC is deeply rooted in American pioneering spirit and entrepreneurship. Florentine Ariosto Jones, a watchmaker from Boston, founds the International Watch Company in 1868. He draws on the help of eminently qualified Swiss watchmakers, modern technology, and hydropower sourced from the nearby River Rhine to manufacture pocket watch movements of the highest possible quality. The Rauschenbachs, an industrialist family from Schaffhausen, take over the company following Jones’ return to the United States. During its early years, IWC produces pocket watches with a digital “Pallweber” display, as well as wristwatches for women and men.