IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Cousteau Edition - IW376706
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IWC was founded in 1868 by the American engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones. The Schaffhausen (on the Rhine) based International Watch Co. aimed to produce high quality watches in Switzerland for the American market right from the start. The company's founder F.A. Jones, from Boston, MA, had previously been the director of America's leading watch brand, E. Howard & Co. On the one hand, he saw Switzerland as the home of traditional watch making that he wanted to combine with modern American production methods, and on the other hand, his idea was clearly economically motivated: namely, the wage level, the end of the 19th century, was significantly in Switzerland lower than in the United States. Nevertheless, neither the founder himself nor another American manager succeeded at making the IWC profitable. Only after the takeover by the Swiss industrialist family Rauschenbach in 1879, did the company finally manage an economic breakthrough.
After IWC had already procured a respectable name in aviation, it launched a line of diving watches in the late 1960s, which since the 1970s, bears the significant name Aquatimer. And with a retail price of around 550 francs then, the Aquatimer was one of the more expensive diving watches even then. The first Aquatimer watch was waterproof up to 200m and offered, as special feature, automatic pressure equalization via spring tension. The debut model is one of the much sought-IWC models and can be as difficult to find as many of the representatives of the legendary Mark series.
From a business perspective, it was extremely brave for IWC to start a direct attack on brand in a small market, whose diving watches had almost synonymous to become the genre, just think of the Sea-Dweller/Submariner by Rolex or the Omega Seamaster. Compared to the aforementioned, the IWC Aquatimer watch lacked not only a few years of model care, but also
the historical moments that legends are ultimately made of. And yet IWC has repeatedly managed to create a classic in a relatively short amount of time. The recipe for this is IWC?s always uncompromising quality.
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