With SIHH 2013 fast approaching IWC has published a history of its Ingenieur watches.
With the advent of electricity, magnetic fields increasingly affected the lives of ordinary people. It wasn’t long before IWC’s watchmakers started thinking of ways to protect their timepieces against them.
Back in 1888, under the management of Johannes Vogel Muster, IWC had been making 16- and 19-ligne antimagnetic movements for the Non-Magnetic Watch Company. The balance, balance spring, escape wheel and pallet lever were made of a palladium alloy, the pallet fork of bronze and the arms of gold. Later, the topic of protection against magnetism assumed special importance for the armed forces. The ongoing modernization of aircraft cockpits likewise led to an ever-greater accumulation of magnetic field sources. For this reason, in the mid-1940s, IWC developed a professional pilot’s watch for the British Royal Air Force.
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