SIHH 2013 Preview: IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Racer (Ref 3785)

Every year IWC chooses to renovate one of its iconic watch collections for SIHH. Last year was the year of the Pilot, and 2013 is going to be the year of the Ingenieur! The Ingenieur family of watches has long been IWC’s chief collection for excellence in technology. When first launch in 1955, the Ingenieur watches housed a movement with a soft-iron inner core that protected the movement from gravitational forces. Later, the Ingenieur watches were the ones to have the first bidirectional movement, also created by IWC.

Explore Our Collection of Luxury Swiss Watches From IWCThis year the Ingenieur was chosen due to IWC’s brand new partnership with the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One racing team, already producing an Ingenieur Automatic AMG Black Series watch, also scheduled to be released at SIHH. The Ingenieur Chronograph Racer takes its cues from this partnership based on the materials used in it, including carbon fiber, ceramic, and titanium while taking visual elements from the cockpits of F1 cars.

This watch in particular has a stainless steel case with a chronograph function and a tachymeter scale, both which help drivers measure speed over a particular distance. The Chronograph Racer will have the automatic mechanical in-house IWC movement caliber 89361, which is a flyback chronograph with small hacking seconds. Overall the design is very clean with exceptionally easy to read chronograph dials. IWC will be releasing the Ingenieur Chronograph Racer in four versions: silver dial with rubber strap (IW378508), silver dial with bracelet (IW378510), slate dial with rubber strap (IW378507), and a slate dial with bracelet (IW378509).

IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Racer Watch Specifications

Movement:

• Caliber 89361 in-house automatic mechanical movement
• 68 hour power reserve
• 38 jewels
• 28,800 vibrations per hour

Functions:

• Hours, minutes, seconds, flyback chronograph, date display, tachymeter

Case:

• Diameter:45 mm
• Case Material: Stainless Steel
• Crystal: Scratch-resistant sapphire
• Water Resistant: 100 meters

Strap:

• Stainless steel bracelet or rubber and textile inlay strap

King Jewelers is an authorized dealer for IWC watches in South Florida and Middle Tennessee as well as for over forty luxury Swiss watch brands including Bell & Ross, Breguet, Breitling, Cartier, Chanel, Chopard, DeWitt, Harry Winston, Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Jaquet Droz, Montblanc, Roger Dubuis and TAG Heuer. King Jewelers is a member of the American Watch Guild and has been named a Leading Watch Retailer in North America by International Wristwatch Magazine. King Jewelers also offers expert watch repair and watch restoration at their retail locations in Aventura, FL and Nashville, TN. For more information, please visit www.iwc.com.