Testing the IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Edition ?Rudolf Caracciola?
The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Edition ?Rudolf Caracciola? ? part of the Schaffhausen-based brand’s revamped Ingenieur line for 2017 ? has an elegant retro look and a completely newly developed movement.
The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Edition Rudolf Caracciola takes its name from a Grand Prix-winning race car driver.
The IWC Ingenieur premiered in 1955 as a three-handed watch with a clean design and protection against magnetic fields up to 80,000 amperes per meter. The watch was created to assure that technicians and researchers would always be punctual in an increasingly electronic world. In 1976, the renowned watch designer Gérald Genta, whose other brainchildren include Audemars Piguet?s Royal Oak and Patek Philippe?s Nautilus, sketched a totally new Ingenieur. Genta?s ?SL? had five little holes in its bezel, an integrated metal bracelet, and a soft-iron inner case to protect it against magnetism. This styling was revived when the Ingenieur line was relaunched in 2005, but some of these models had no protection against magnetic fields. IWC has built and still builds numerous models with diverse additional functions such as a second time zone, chronograph, perpetual calendar and tourbillon. IWC revived several historical watches in 2008 when it premiered the Vintage collection. Among these was a three-handed watch that paid homage to the first Ingenieur with dauphine hands and applied baton-shaped indexes. This model also had a sapphire window in its caseback thr...
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