IWC

Just launched in Paris a few hours ago, here is the new IWC Ingenieur Zinedine Zidane. - SJX Press release: Super Technician Ingenieur Automatic Edition Zinédine Zidane IWC Schaffhausen is proud to announce that one of the best footballers in the world, Z...  

He'll head-butt me! Honestly it is not my style, but I do like the 10 as the only digits on the dial -a

To say all, that is the kind of thing that leads me far from IWC... I don't like this politic of LE for every thing, or for every one... I love Zizou, I appreciate the Ingenieur in its simple version, but I don't see what IWC wants to do with that kind of... 

I mean, associating the Ingenieur model with a (typically uneducated) football player is a faux-pas. What's next? UN issuing a LE of the Astrolabium Galileo Galilei dedicated to the Pope?

There sure is a sting in the tail of that comment! Many would argue though, in response to your thesis, that genius can be physical as well as intellectual. Think of Nijinsky...Nadia Comaneci...Tiger Woods... Cheers Tony P

. . . with only the numerals 4, 6, and 1 on the dial . . . ;-) . . . Art

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